The
new American exceptionalism
Pease, Donald E.
creator
text
bibliography
mnu
Minneapolis
University of Minnesota Press
2009
monographic
eng
246 p.
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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