Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Introduction; Constructing Conceptions of National Identity; The Emerging Nation-State; Theorizing Identity; Gee's Framework for Understanding Identity; Sameness and Selfhood; Interpreting the Imagined Community; Elements of National Identity; Discourse and National Identity; The Discursive Construction of National Identity; Discourse-Historical Approach; Contents; Strategy; Means and Forms of Realization; The Use of Metaphor; 'We'; Policy Paradigms; Methodology and Presidential Data; Data

Rationale for Text SelectionNarrative Practices; Presidential Discourse; Inaugural Addresses; State of the Union Addresses; Signing Statements and Press Releases; Executive Orders and Proclamations; Selection of Laws; Method of Analysis; Analysis of Texts; American Superiority; Anthem; Call for Change; Call to Action; Duty; Economy = Freedom; Faith; Fear; Goals; Imminent Change; National Security; Order; Purpose of Education in the Nation-State; Responsibility; Vow; Focused Findings: Micro-Strategies; Conclusion and Significance; References

Chapter 2 Industrialization and Competition: The Development of the American Research UniversityNational Identity and Higher Education: 1862-1900; The Civil War: President Lincoln, 1861-1865; Reconstruction Presidents: Johnson, 1865-1869; Grant, 1869-1877; Presidents of the Industrial Age: Hayes, 1877-1881; Garfield, 1881; Arthur, 1881-1885; Cleveland, 1885-1889; Progressive Era Presidents: Harrison 1889-1893; Cleveland, 1893-1897; McKinley, 1897-1901; Policy Paradigms: The Creation of the Land-Grant Institutions; The Morrill Act of 1862; The Morrill Act of 1890; The Paradigm Shift

Moving from Advancement for Success to Advancement for Competition and VictoryReferences; Chapter 3 From Progressive Reform to Research and Competition: Higher Education from the Turn of the Twentieth Century Through the Great War; National Identity and Higher Education: 1900-1918; Before the War: President T. Roosevelt 1901-1909; and President Taft 1909-1913; The Great War and American Supremacy: President Wilson 1913-1921; Policy Paradigms: Influence but no Shift; Recovery and Collapse: Economic Depression, the Rise of Dictatorships, and the Role of Higher Education; References

Chapter 4 A Failing Nation, a Struggling Institution: Higher Education in the Inter-War PeriodHigher Education and National Identity: 1921-1938; The Presidents of the Roaring Twenties: President Harding, 1921-1923; President Coolidge, 1923-1929; The Great Depression Presidents: President Hoover, 1929-1933; President F. D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945; Policy Paradigms? Not in the Depression; From Depression to a War Economy: Higher Education and the Second World War; References; Chapter 5 University Technology and Arms to Win the War: The US in World War II