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The new American exceptionalism / Donald E. Pease.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pease, Donald E.
- Series:
- Critical American studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, American.
- United States--Politics and government--1989-.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Foreign relations--1989-.
- International relations.
- United States--Civilization.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 246 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- The advent of the cold war after World war II and the global war on terror following the Soviet Union's collapse helped the United States form an organizing logic that led to an unwavering belief in the nation's exceptionalism in global affairs and world history. In The New American Exceptionalism, pioneering scholar Donald E. Pease traces the evolution of these state fantasies, uncovering the ideological and cultural work required to convince Americans to surrender their civil liberties in exchange for the illusion of security.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the United States of fantasy
- Staging the new world order: Hiroshima, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the Persian Gulf War
- America of the two covenants: the Waco siege and the Oklahoma City bombing
- A national rite of passage: the return of Alexis de Tocqueville
- Patriot acts: the Southernification of America
- From virgin land to Ground Zero: mythological foundations of the homeland security state
- Antigone's kin: from Abu Ghraib to Barack Obama.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816627820
- 0816627827
- 9780816627837
- 0816627835
- OCLC:
- 370610705
- Publisher Number:
- 99935961788
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