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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Litke, Justin B., 1984- Twilight of the republic. Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2013 (DLC) 2013010407 (OCoLC)818735113 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Justin B Litke |
ISBN: | 9780813142210 0813142210 9780813142227 0813142229 |
OCLC Number: | 852898436 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | The problem of American exceptionalism -- John Winthrop : a divinely sanctioned, practically circumscribed colony -- The founders : a providentially guided, temporally bound country -- Abraham Lincoln : an ideally united, potentially unbound union -- Albert Beveridge : a racially defined, imperially aimed nation -- Conclusion : the possibility of a new and traditional American political order. |
Responsibility: | Justin B. Litke. |
Abstract:
The uniqueness of America has been alternately celebrated and panned, emphasized and denied, for most of the country's history -- both by its own people and by visitors and observers from around the world. Twilight of the Republic aims to reinvigorate the tradition that once caused people the world over to envy the American political order.
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