The new American exceptionalism

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pease, Donald E. (Autor)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:German
Publicado: Minneapolis [u.a.] : Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2009
Colección:Critical American studies series
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the United States of fantasy
  • Staging the new world order: Hiroshima, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the Persian Gulf War
  • America of the two covenants: the Waco siege and the Oklahoma City bombing
  • A national rite of passage: the return of Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Patriot acts: the Southernification of America
  • From virgin land to ground zero: mythological foundations of the homeland security state
  • Antigone's kin: from Abu Ghraib to Barack Obama