A great disorder : national myth and the battle for America /
Richard Slotkin.
- First Harvard University Press paperback edition
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.
- x, 512 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction — National Myth and the Battle for America Part I — Myths of the White Republic The Myth of the Frontier The Myth of the Founding Part II — Civil War Mythologies Lincoln and Liberation Confederate Founding: Civil War as Culture War The Lost Cause: Redemption and the White Reunion Part III — The Nation Transformed: From the Civil War to the Good War Industrialization, Vigilantism, and the Imperial Frontier The Great Exception: The New Deal and National Myth The Myth of the Good War: Platoon Movies and the Reconception of American Nationality Part IV — American Apotheosis: From Kennedy’s New Frontier to Reagan’s Morning in America The New Frontier: Savage War and Social Justice Cultural Revolution: The Sixties, the Movement, and the Great Society Back in the Saddle: Reagan, Neoliberalism, and the War Against the Sixties Rising Tide: Climate Change and the Fossil Fuel Frontier Cowboys and Aliens: The Global War on Terror Part V — The Age of Culture War The Obama Presidency: The Myth of the Movement and the Tea Party Reaction Equalizers: The Gun Rights Movement and Culture-War Conservatism The Trump Redemption: Make America Great Again Trump in the White House: The President as Insurgent Imagining Civil War: The 2020 Election “The Last President of the Confederacy”: Trump’s Lost Cause Conclusion National Myth and the Crisis of Democracy Notes Acknowledgments Index
The culture wars are pitting us against each other with a vitriol that is fueling outright violence. Slotkin looks to the foundational myths that have shaped American identity--the Frontier, the Founding, the Civil War (Emancipation and Lost Cause), and Good War--and reveals how and why they are bringing the United States to the brink of an existential crisis.
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