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The Tragedy of US Foreign Policy: How America's Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest.
GIC Collection at Penn Libraries
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDougall, Walter A., 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Area Studies: American Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Area Studies: American Studies.
- Contents:
- Introduction: 9/11 in Parallax Vision 1
- 1 Why the Bush Blunders? 7
- 2 Why the Imperial Overstretch? 17
- 3 Why the American Heresies? 25
- Washington's World: The Civil Church Expectant 33
- 4 A Divine-Right Republic in the Family of Nations 39
- 5 Washington's Farewell Address 46
- 6 Thomas Jefferson and the Utopian Temptation 53
- 7 John Quincy Adams and the Problem of Neighborhood 60
- 8 Manifest Destiny 71
- 9 European Revolutions and American Civil War 80
- 10 The Gilded Age: Last Years of Orthodoxy 90
- Wilson's World: The Civil Church Militant 101
- 11 ¡Cuba Libre! 107
- 12 The Progressive Social Gospel 117
- 13 Benevolent Assimilation 125
- 14 Twentieth-Century Trends 130
- 15 Wilson's War 141
- 16 Wilson's Peace 154
- Roosevelt's World: The Civil Church Agonistes 167
- 17 Modern Explosions 173
- 18 The Progressive Republican Denouement 182
- 19 Roosevelt the Isolationist 191
- 20 Roosevelt the Interventionist 200
- 21 World War II: The Great Masquerade 212
- 22 Roosevelt the Failed High Priest 224
- Kennedy's World: The Civil Church Triumphant 237
- 23 The Cradles of Cold War Theology 245
- 24 High Priestly Prayers 259
- 25 Impossible Dreams 274
- 26 Age of Aquarius 291
- 27 A Purgatory in Time 305
- 28 The Power of Words 321
- Obama's World? The global Civil Religion Aborts 339.
- ISBN:
- 9780300211450
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