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The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy : How America's Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest /
A fierce critique of civil religion as the taproot of America's bid for global hegemonyPulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter A. McDougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that "God is on our side" has inspired U.S. foreign policy ever since 1776. The f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
[publisher not identified],
2016.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.