The new American exceptionalism
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| Formato: | Livro |
| Idioma: | German |
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Minneapolis [u.a.] :
Univ. of Minnesota Press,
2009
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| Colecção: | Critical American studies series
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Sumário:
- 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