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A great disorder : national myth and the battle for America / Richard Slotkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slotkin, Richard, 1942- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Myth--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Myth.
- Culture conflict--United States--History.
- Culture conflict.
- United States--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 512 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- 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 the Lost Cause), and the Good War--and reveals why they are bringing the US to the brink of an existential crisis.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-486) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Slotkin, Richard A Great Disorder
- ISBN:
- 9780674297036
- 0674297032
- OCLC:
- 1419001051
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