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A powerful dissection of a core American myth.

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"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"

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Introduction: 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

American Exceptionalism A New History of an Old

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 19 January 2022
      ISBN-13 9780226812090
      978-0226812090
      ISBN-10 022681209X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A 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 Contents
      Introduction: 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

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