A national myth and the battle for America Slotkin, Richard Sidney 1942- creator text mau Cambridge, Massachusetts The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2025 First Harvard University Press paperback edition monographic eng x, 512 pages ; 21 cm 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. 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 Richard Slotkin. Includes bibliographical references and index. Mito Aspectos políticos Historia Estados Unidos Conflictos culturales Estados Unidos Estados Unidos Historia 002 E 179 S634g 2025 9780674301436 (Pbk.) 0674301439 (Pbk.) 260720 20260723111723.0 eng