America's current transformation from an industrial to a new information-based culture presents new challenges as well as new perspectives on old debates. This work offers a comprehensive survey of America's changing values. It examines notions of American exceptionalism and how the melting pot is coping with race relations and changing demographics; and assesses the agenda of government, the domestic and global constraints, and how social exclusion can be tackled. Current changes in the US are likely to be a harbinger for other societies, and the authors examine new models of civic society, of learning and of reconfiguring social values for a fast-changing world.