Modern Jeremiahs
Subtitle: contemporary visions of American decline
By: Mark Stephen Jendrysik.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780739121917; 9780739121924
Subjects: Communication in politics -- United States; Jeremiads -- United States; Regression (Civilization); Political oratory -- United States; United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-188) and index.
Table of contents: title: America in decline : an idea whose time has always come; title: The styles of the American Jeremiah; title: Allan Bloom : founding father of the modern Jeremiad; title: Culture warriors vs. the boomers and Bill Clinton; title: Bill O'Reilly and Michael Moore : populist Jeremiahs; title: Nativist Jeremiahs; title: Jeremiah and Jihad : 9/11 and American decline; title: Hillary Rodham Clinton : ambivalent Jeremiah?; title: The Jeremiad and American democracy.