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Book SynopsisWho is the most truly heroic--Captain America or Iron Man? The writers in this book try to answer that question from many diverse viewpoints.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Clash of the Archetypes 1. How Captain America and Iron Man Embody America JOHN ALTMANN 2. Believing the Impossible in a World of Compromise MATTHEW WILLIAM BRAKE 3. Captain America and Iron Man: The Gods of Marvel GERALD BROWNING 4. Avengers Dissemble! COLE BOWMAN 5. Trust Only Yourself or Trust the System ARON ERICSON 6. Iron Man Don’t Know Best MAXWELL HENDERSON 7. One God or Many Gods in the World of the Avengers JAMES HOLT 8. Civil War! Liberty versus Security COREY HORN 9. Doctor Angelicus’s Interregnum CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM 10. A Man Fighting amongst the Gods ROB LUZECKY AND CHARLENE ELSBY 11. The Tarnished Hero DANIEL MALLOY 12. The Technocrat and the Democrat DANIEL MALLOY 13. I Don’t Care, He Killed My Mom JACOB THOMAS MAY 14. Trapped in Violence: The American Way of War LOUIS MELANÇON 15. The Different Paths of Good Men CLARA NISLEY 16. Captain America’s Ethical Imperative FERNANDO PAGNONI BERNS 17. The Extended Shield: Mind, Morality, and Civil War CHRISTOPHE POROT 18. Will the Real American Hero Please Stand Up? HEIDI SAMUELSON 19. Red vs. Blue or Both Simply Leviathan Green? NICOL SMITH 20. Champion of the People: Technology and the Fourth Industrial Revolution CRAIG VAN PELT 21. Superpowers and the Challenge to State Sovereignty JEFFREY EWING References Author Bios Index