A great disorder national myth and the battle for America
"Red America and Blue America are so divided they could be two different countries, with wildly diverging views of why government exists and who counts as American. Their ideologies are grounded in different versions of American history, endorsing irreconcilable visions of patriotism and national id...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: Myths of the white republic
- The myth of the frontier
- The myth of the founding
- Part II: Civil War mythologies
- Lincoln and liberation
- Confederate founding: Civil War as culture war
- The lost cause: redemption and the white reunion
- Part III: The nation transformed: from the Civil War 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: platoon movies and the reconception of American nationality
- Part IV: American apotheosis: from Kennedy's new frontier to Regan'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
- Part V: 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
- Conclusion: National myth and the crisis of democracy.
