Redeemer nation in the Interregnum : an untimely meditation on the American vocation /

Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum interrogates the polyvalent role that American exceptionalism continues to play after 9/11. Whereas American exceptionalism is often construed as a discredited Cold War-era belief structure, Spanos persuasively demonstrates how it operationalizes an apparatus of bi...

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Main Author: Spanos, William V. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a Foreword : Witness to the Critical Imperatives of the Interregnum / by Donald E. Pease -- The Nothingness of Being and the Spectacle : The American Sublime Revisited -- American Exceptionalism in the Post-9/11 Era : The Myth and the Reality -- "The Center Will Not Hold" : The Widening Gyre of the New, New Americanist Studies -- American Exceptionalism and the Calling : A Genealogy of the Vocational Ethic -- Appendix: The Debate World and the Making of the American Political Class : An Interview Conducted by Christopher Spurlock with William V. Spanos. 
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