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1 online resource (xvii, 408 pages) |
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Introduction : 9/11 in Parallax Vision : -- 1. Why the Bush blunders? -- 2. Why the imperial overstretch? -- 3. Why the American heresies? -- Washington's World : the Civil Church Expectant : -- 4. A divine-right republic in the family of nations -- 5. Washington's farewell address -- 6. Thomas Jefferson and the utopian temptation -- 7. John Quincy Adams and the problem of neighborhood -- 8. Manifest destiny -- 9. European revolutions and American civil war -- 10. The gilded age : last years of orthodoxy -- Wilson's World : the Civil Church Militant : -- 11. ¡Cuba libre! -- 12. The progressive social gospel -- 13. Benevolent assimilation -- 14. Twentieth-century trends -- 15. Wilson's war -- 16. Wilson's peace -- Roosevelt's World : the Civil Church Agonistes : -- 17. Modern explosions -- 18. The progressive Republican denouement -- 19. Roosevelt the isolationist -- 20. Roosevelt the interventionist -- 21. World War II : the great masquerade -- 22. Roosevelt the failed high priest -- Kennedy's World : the Civil Church Triumphant -- 23. The cradles of cold war theology -- 24. High priestly prayers -- 25. Impossible dreams -- 26. Age of Aquarius -- 27. A purgatory in time -- 28. The power of words -- Obama's world? : the Global Civil Religion Aborts. |
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9780300224511 |
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0300224516 |
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9780300211450 |
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0300211457 |
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