The new American exceptionalism
By: Donald E. Pease.
Series: Critical American studies series
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816627820; 9780816627837
Subjects: National characteristics, American; United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-; United States -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the United States of fantasy; title: Staging the new world order: Hiroshima, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the Persian Gulf War; title: America of the two covenants: the Waco siege and the Oklahoma City bombing; title: A national rite of passage: the return of Alexis de Tocqueville; title: Patriot acts: the Southernification of America; title: From virgin land to ground zero: mythological foundations of the homeland security state; title: Antigone's kin: from Abu Ghraib to Barack Obama.