A great disorder : national myth and the battle for America / Richard Slotkin.

By:

Slotkin, Richard Sidney, 1942-

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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.Edition: First Harvard University Press paperback editionDescription: x, 512 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

9780674301436 (Pbk.)
0674301439 (Pbk.)

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LOC classification:

002 E 179 S634g 2025

Contents:

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

Summary: 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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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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