The new American exceptionalism - Pease, Donald E. (Minneapolis [u.a.] : Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2009)
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
Keywords: USA; Nationalcharakter