03813nam 2200745Ia 450 991078279220332120230207230006.00-8166-5669-X(CKB)1000000000692386(EBL)380885(OCoLC)471132787(SSID)ssj0000280571(PQKBManifestationID)11196262(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280571(PQKBWorkID)10290422(PQKB)10570326(MiAaPQ)EBC380885(MdBmJHUP)muse39311(Au-PeEL)EBL380885(CaPaEBR)ebr10257023(CaONFJC)MIL525991(EXLCZ)99100000000069238620080409d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIdentity and the failure of America[electronic resource] from Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror /John MichaelMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20081 online resource (312 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-5144-2 0-8166-5143-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-294) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Failure of America and the Claims of Identity; PART I. FAILED VIRTUES; 1. Jefferson's Headache: Race and the Failure of a Benevolent Republic; 2. Ahab's Cannibals: Vicissitudes of Command and the Failure of Manly Virtue; PART II. FAILED SYMPATHIES; 3. Lydia Maria Child's Romance: Cosmopolitan Imagination and the Failure of Gender Reform; 4. John Brown's Identities: Nat Turner and the Fear of Just Deserts; PART III. FAILED JUDGMENT; 5. Emerson's Activism: The Trials and Tribulations of an American Citizen6. Douglass's Cosmopolitanism: American Empire and the Failure of Diplomatic RepresentationConclusion: American Identities and Global Terror; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; WFrom Thomas Jefferson to John Rawls, justice has been at the center of America's self-image and national creed. At the same time, for many of its peoples-from African slaves and European immigrants to women and the poor-the American experience has been defined by injustice: oppression, disenfranchisement, violence, and prejudice. In Identity and the Failure of America, John Michael explores the contradictions between a mythic national identity promising justice to all and the realities of a divided, hierarchical, and frequently iniquitous history and social order. Through a series of insightfuNational characteristics, AmericanNationalismUnited StatesHistoryGroup identityUnited StatesHistoryAllegianceUnited StatesHistoryFailure (Psychology)United StatesHistorySocial justiceUnited StatesHistoryAmerican literatureHistory and criticismUnited StatesSocial conditionsUnited StatesPolitics and governmentUnited StatesIntellectual lifeNational characteristics, American.NationalismHistory.Group identityHistory.AllegianceHistory.Failure (Psychology)History.Social justiceHistory.American literatureHistory and criticism.305.8305.800973Michael John1953-1090704MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782792203321Identity and the failure of America3755065UNINA