Myths America lives by : white supremacy and the stories that give us meaning / Richard T. Hughes ; foreword by Robert N. Bellah ; new foreword by Molefi Kete Asante.

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"In the first edition of Myths America Lives By, Hughes identified the five key myths that lie at the heart of the American experience-the myths of the Chosen Nation, of Nature's Nation, of the Christian Nation, of the Millennial Nation, and of the Innocent Nation. Drawing on a range of dissenting v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hughes, Richard T. (Richard Thomas), 1943- (Author)
Other Authors: Bellah, Robert N. (Robert Neelly), 1927-2013 (writer of foreword.)
Asante, Molefi Kete, 1942- (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
United States > History > Philosophy.
United States > Foreign relations > Philosophy.
United States > History > Religious aspects > Christianity.
National characteristics, American.
Nationalism > United States.
Myth > Political aspects > United States.
Diplomatic relations > Philosophy.
Myth > Political aspects.
Nationalism.
Philosophy.
United States.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xviii, 251 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The great American myths and a different American future
  • The myth of the chosen nation : the colonial period
  • The myth of nature's nation : the revolutionary period
  • The myth of the Christian nation : the early national period
  • The myth of the millennial nation : the early national period
  • The mythic dimensions of American capitalism : the gilded age
  • The myth of the innocent nation : the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.