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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164939603321

Autore

Peabody Bruce Garen <1969->

Titolo

Where have all the heroes gone? : the changing nature of American valor / / Bruce Peabody and Krista Jenkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-19-066048-1

0-19-998297-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages)

Disciplina

303.3/40973

Soggetti

Courage - Social aspects - United States

Courage - Public opinion - United States

Heroes - United States

National characteristics, American

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

'Where Have All the Heroes Gone?' provides an analysis of heroism's application and meaning among political and media elites, as well as the mass public over the past fifty years. In asking 'what has happened' to American heroes over this span, it explores how heroes are used strategically by governing officials and providers of media content in ways that are frequently divergent from and even directly opposed to popular expectations.