Capture the flag
Subtitle: the stars and stripes in American history
By: Arnaldo Testi ; translated by Noor Giovanni Mazhar
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780814783221
Work titles: Stelle e strisce
Notes: Originally published in Italian by Bollati Boringhieri Editore in 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the Italian.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Totem; title: pt. 1. Worship : the invention of a tradition; title: The spirit of '76; title: New cults for Old Glory; title: Flag etiquette; title: pt. 2. Freedom : whose freedom?; title: God and the flag; title: The land of the free; title: Multiple traditions; title: American jeremiad; title: pt. 3. Empire : frontiers old and new; title: More stars; title: Does the Constitution follow the flag?; title: Iwo Jima; title: Moon landing; title: pt. 4. Patriots and dissenters : who owns the flag?; title: Desecration; title: Patriotic pop; title: Capture the flag.