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200 10$aIdentity and the failure of America$b[electronic resource] $efrom Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror /$fJohn Michael
210   $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2008
215   $a1 online resource (312 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-294) and index.
327   $aContents; 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 Citizen
327   $a6. 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; W
330   $aFrom 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 insightfu
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