Mark Stephen Jendrysik

Modern Jeremiahs (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary Visions of American Decline

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One of the most enduring themes in American political discourse is the idea of decline. Since the very beginnings of the European settlement of North America there have been voices pointing to an inevitable regression of the people from the standards set by heroic ancestors. This discourse of decay has often taken the form of the jeremiad in which public intellectuals, pundits, and politicians point to the causes of decline and call for a return to older and nobler standards of conduct. The Jeremiad has seen a revival in the last 25 years. Jendrysik traces the history of this form of political discourse from its modern reinvention by Allan Bloom to its current uses by such figures as Bill O'Reilly and Hillary Clinton.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461633792
• Artikelnr.: 38096023

Autorenporträt

Mark Stephen Jendrysik is chair of the department of political science and public administration at the University of North Dakota and author of Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and His Contemporaries.

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