Title A great disorder : national myth and the battle for America / Richard Slotkin

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2024

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Description 1 online resource 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 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 Lost Cause), and Good War-and reveals how and why they are bringing the United States to the brink of an existential crisis."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Myth -- Political aspects -- United States -- History Culture conflict -- United States -- History Culture conflict Myth -- Political aspects HISTORY / United States / 21st Century SUBJECT United States -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140130 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674297036 0674297032 9780674297029 0674297024

Other Titles National myth and the battle for America

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