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Book SynopsisA powerful dissection of a core American myth.
Trade Review"American Exceptionalism is a much-needed, erudite, wide-ranging, and persuasive study. There are many books addressing American exceptionalism but none like this. It is the most critically astute, synthetic, interdisciplinary, and balanced of all the studies made of the topic."-- "John Corrigan, author of Religious Intolerance, America, and the World: A History of Forgetting and Remembering"
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Peculiar Tale of American Exceptionalism Chapter 1: The Puritans and American Chosenness Chapter 2: Looking Back, Looking Forward: Remembering the Revolution Chapter 3: Cultural Nationalism and the Origins of American Exceptionalism Chapter 4: Lyman Beecher, Personal Identity, and the Christian Republic Chapter 5: Women and Exceptionalism: The Self-Made Woman and the Power of Catharine Beecher Chapter 6: Race, Anglo-Saxonism, and Manifest Destiny Chapter 7: In the Hands of an Angry God: The Antislavery Jeremiad and the Origins of the Christian Nation Chapter 8: Fin de Siècle Challenges: The Frontier, Labor, and American Imperialism Chapter 9: Two Isms: Americanism and Socialism Chapter 10: The Dream and the Century: The Liberal Exceptionalism of the New Deal State, 1930s–1960s Chapter 11: The Newly Chosen Nation: Exceptionalism from Reagan to Trump Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Index
