Mark Stephen Jendrysik

Modern Jeremiahs

Contemporary Visions of American Decline

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Produktbeschreibung

This book identifies where modern Jeremiahs place the sources of national decline and their purposed solutions and its analysis also reveals the central problem faced by this form of writing: the need to balance condemnation of certain practices within the democratic polity with calls for repentance. For these writers and political actors, the tensions created by these demands prove impossible to resolve, as the modern jeremiad further divides an already divided nation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 489g
• ISBN-13: 9780739121917
• ISBN-10: 073912191X
• Artikelnr.: 23485678

Autorenporträt

Mark Stephen Jendrysik is assistant professor of politics in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Dakota.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Dedication
Chapter 2 Table of Contents
Chapter 3 Acknowledgements
Chapter 4 1 America in Decline: An Idea Whose Time Has Always Come
Chapter 5 2 The Styles of the American Jeremiah
Chapter 6 3 Allan Bloom: Founding Father of the Modern Jeremiad
Chapter 7 4 Culture Warriors vs. the Boomers and Bill Clinton
Chapter 8 5 Bill O'Reilly and Michael Moore: Populist Jeremiahs
Chapter 9 6 Nativist Jeremiahs
Chapter 10 7 Jeremiah and Jihad: 9/11 and American Decline
Chapter 11 8 Hillary Rodham Clinton: Ambivalent Jeremiah?
Chapter 12 9 The Jeremiad and American Democracy
Chapter 13 Bibliography
Chapter 14 Index
Chapter 15 About the Author