| Description |
x, 413 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : presidential rhetoric and national identity -- Land, citizenship, and national identity in Jackson's America -- Temperance, character, and race in the antebellum United States -- The business of government during the Democratic interregnum of Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889 -- Establishing a transcendent international order under Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921 -- Balancing the nation : brokering FDR's economic union, 1932-1940 -- Citizenship contained : domesticating God, family, and country during the Eisenhower years -- Managing diversity in a fragmented polity : the post-Cold War world of George H.W. Bush -- Conclusion : choosing our national identity. |
| Subject |
Group identity -- United States -- History.
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Political culture -- United States -- History.
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National characteristics, American.
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Presidents -- United States -- History.
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| ISBN |
0700613498 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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