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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jendrysik, Mark Stephen. Modern Jeremiahs. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2008 (OCoLC)608615822 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Stephen Jendrysik |
| ISBN: | 9780739121917 073912191X 9780739121924 0739121928 |
| OCLC Number: | 185021462 |
| Description: | x, 193 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | America in decline : an idea whose time has always come -- The styles of the American Jeremiah -- Allan Bloom : founding father of the modern Jeremiad -- Culture warriors vs. the boomers and Bill Clinton -- Bill O'Reilly and Michael Moore : populist Jeremiahs -- Nativist Jeremiahs -- Jeremiah and Jihad : 9/11 and American decline -- Hillary Rodham Clinton : ambivalent Jeremiah? -- The Jeremiad and American democracy. |
| Responsibility: | Mark Stephen Jendrysik. |
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Modern Jeremiahs explores America's favorite narrative - the dire warning of terrible decline. We've been going to hell in a hand basket since the Puritans arrived. But, as Jendrysik artfully demonstrates, our tales of woe have profoundly changed - and with far reaching consequences. Elegant, engaging, infuriating, funny, insightful and highly recommended. -- James Morone, author of Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History and professor of political science, Brown University A useful examination of the prominent themes of neoconservative social and political thought of the past several decades and an effective criticism of the dangers of this form of political thought. Recommended. CHOICE, January 2009 Modern Jeremiahs draws attention to a prominent yet puzzling fixture of contemporary political argument: the narrative of decline at a time of significant economic and military strength. While carefully rooted in the history of American political thought, this highly engaging study focuses on the appeal of such rhetoric in the last two decades among commentators on both right and left. Jendrysik invites us to look more carefully at the multiple uses of the jeremiad and ultimately at its serious limitations in prompting social change. -- Albert W. Dzur, associate professor of political science, Bowling Green State University Read more...
