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The new American exceptionalism / Donald E. Pease.

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For a half century following the end of World War II, the seemingly permanent cold war provided the United States with an organizing logic that governed nearly every aspect of American society and culture, giving rise to an unwavering belief in the nation's exceptionalism in global affairs and...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Pease, Donald E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2009.
Series:Critical American studies series.
Subjects:
National characteristics, American.
United States > Politics and government > 1989-
United States > Foreign relations > 1989-
United States > Civilization.
Civilization
Diplomatic relations
National characteristics, American
Politics and government
United States
Since 1989
Table of 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.

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