truth about patriotism
By: Steven Johnston.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822340898; 9780822341109
Subjects: Patriotism -- United States; United States -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: "Without external picturesqueness," or, why I am not a patriot; title: This patriotism which is not one; title: Iconic drama I: The mortal logic of enmity; title: Iconic drama II: the Socratic way of death; title: The American memorial/monument complex I: political not patriotic; title: The American memorial/monument complex II: the architecture of democratic monuments; title: Patriotism and death: wounded patriotic attachments; title: Bruce Springsteen and the tragedy of the American dream; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.