A Great Disorder : National Myth and the Battle for America / Richard Slotkin.
Slotkin, Richard, author.
2024
E179 .S63 2024eb
Available Online

Linked e-resources

Linked Resource Online Access
Concurrent users Unlimited
Authorized users Authorized users
Access notes DRM-Free
Document Delivery Supplied Can lend chapters, not whole books

Details

Title A Great Disorder : National Myth and the Battle for America / Richard Slotkin.
Author Slotkin, Richard, author.
ISBN 9780674297036
0674297032
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674297036
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2024]
Copyright ©2024
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (496 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674297036 doi
Call Number E179 .S63 2024eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 973
Summary As culture wars pit us against each other, A Great Disorder looks to the myths that have shaped American identity and reveals how they have brought us to the brink of an existential crisis.Red America and Blue America are so divided they could be two different countries, with wildly diverging views of why government exists and who counts as American. Their ideologies are grounded in different versions of American history, endorsing irreconcilable visions of patriotism and national identity.A Great Disorder is a bold, urgent work that helps us make sense of today's culture wars through a brilliant reconsideration of America's foundational myths and their use in contemporary politics. Famous for his trilogy on the Myth of the Frontier, Richard Slotkin identifies five myths, born of different eras, that have shaped our conception of what it means to be American: the myths of the Frontier, the Founding, the Civil War (which he breaks into two opposing camps, Emancipation and the Lost Cause), and the Good War, embodied by the multiethnic platoon fighting for freedom. His argument is that while Trump and his MAGA followers have played up a frontier-inspired hostility to the federal government and rallied around Confederate symbols to champion a racially exclusive definition of American nationality, Blue America, taking its cue from the protest movements of the 1960s, envisions a limitlessly pluralistic country in which the federal government is the ultimate enforcer of rights and opportunities. American history--and the foundations of our democracy--have become a battleground. It is not clear at this time which vision will prevail.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Digital File Characteristics text file PDF
Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2024).
Linked Resources Online Access
Record Appears in Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Part I Myths of the White Republic
Part II Civil War Mythologies
Part III The Nation Transformed From the Civil War to the Good War
Part IV American Apotheosis From Kennedy's New Frontier to Reagan's Morning in America
Part V The Age of Culture War
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export