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The new American exceptionalism

Print Book, English, cop. 2009
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, cop. 2009
XI, 246 p. ; 22 cm.
9780816627820, 9780816627837, 0816627827, 0816627835
1026105595
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
Índice