Sentence:  It is an understandable paradox that most American history and <WSD>most</WSD> American literature is today written from an essentially egocentric and isolationistic point of view at the very time America is spreading her dominion over palm and pine . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the superlative of `much' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the'; a quantifier meaning the greatest in amount or extent or degree