American Exceptionalisms: From Winthrop to Winfrey

An incisive and wide-ranging look at a powerful force and myth in American culture and history, American Exceptionalisms reveals the centuries-old persistence of the notion that the United States is an exceptional nation, in being both an example to the world and exempt from the rules of international law. Scholars from North America and Europe trace versions of the rhetoric of exceptionalism through a multitude of historical, cultural, and political phenomena, from John Winthrop카지노 게임 컬렉션�s vision of the 카지노 게임 컬렉션�city upon a hill카지노 게임 컬렉션� and the Salem witch trials in the seventeenth century to The Blair Witch Project and Oprah Winfrey카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Child Predator Watch List카지노 게임 컬렉션� in the twenty-first century. The first set of essays focus on constitutive historical moments in the development of the myth, from early exploration narratives through political debates in the early republic to twentieth-century immigration debates. The latter essays address the role of exceptionalism in the 카지노 게임 컬렉션�war on terror카지노 게임 컬렉션� and such cornerstones of modern popular culture as the horror stories of H. P. Lovecraft, the songs of Steve Earle, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.