The real American dream
Subtitle: a meditation on hope
By: Andrew Delbanco
Series: The William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization -- 1998
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780674749252
Subjects: Histoire; Américains; Mélancolie; Moi (Psychologie); Self; Aspect social; Civilization; Geschichte; Nationale kenmerken; Civilisation; History; Melancholy; Melancholie; Hoop; Philosophy; Zivilisation; Nationalisme; Nationalcharakter; American National characteristics; Puritans; Puritains; Kulturelle Identität; Nationalism; Philosophie
Description: "In The Real American Dream one of the nation's premier literary scholars searches out the symbols and stories by which Americans have reached for something beyond worldly desire. A spiritual history ranging from the first English settlements to the present day, the book is also a lively, deeply learned meditation on hope." "Andrew Delbanco tells of the stringent God of Protestant Christianity, who exerted immense force over the language, institutions, and customs of the culture for nearly two hundred years. He describes the falling away of this God and the rise of the idea of a sacred nation-state. And, finally he speaks of our own moment, when symbols of nationalism are in decline, leaving us with nothing to satisfy the longing for transcendence once sustained by God and nation."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: ch. 1.; title: God -- -- ch. 2.; title: Nation -- -- ch. 3.; title: Self.