A great disorder national myth and the battle for America
"The culture wars are pitting us against each other with a vitriol that is fueling outright violence. Slotkin looks to the foundational myths that have shaped American identity-the Frontier, the Founding, the Civil War (Emancipation and Lost Cause), and Good War-and reveals how and why they are...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2024
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Myths of the White Republic
- The Myth of the Frontier
- The Myth of the Founding
- Civil War Mythologies
- Lincoln and Liberation
- Confederate Founding: Civil War as Culture War
- The Lost Cause: Redemption and the White Reunion
- The Nation Transformed: From Reconstruction to the Good War
- Industrialization, Vigilantism and the Imperial Frontier
- The Great Exception: The New Deal and National Myth
- The Myth of the Good War Myth: Platoon Movies and the Reconception of American Nationality
- American Apotheosis: From Kennedy's New Frontier to Reagan's Morning in America
- The New Frontier: Savage War and Social Justice
- Cultural Revolution: The Sixties, the Movement and the Great Society
- Back in the Saddle: Reagan, Neoliberalism and the War Against the Sixties
- Rising Tide: Climate Change and the Fossil Fuel Frontier
- Cowboys and Aliens: The Global War on Terror
- The Age of Culture War
- The Obama Presidency: The Myth of the Movement and the Tea Party Reaction
- Equalizers: The Gun Rights Movement and Culture-War Conservatism
- The Trump Redemption: Make America Great Again
- Trump in the White House: The President as Insurgent
- Imagining Civil War: The 2020 Election
- "The Last President of the Confederacy": Trump's Lost Cause
- National Myth and the Crisis of Democracy.
