What is it about the giant American ur-myth that people can't let go of? The idea of the Greatest Nation? Anyone got reading lists for me?
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that's, hmm, that's a big topic, hard to narrow down a reading list
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it's not directly related, but Chris Hedges' War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
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keeping in mind America's founding myth is a recent war
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and America had multiple "rebirths" in its short history through war
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also I feel a little basic repeating this rec but David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed
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America happened partly bc of Brits attracted to the colonies as a place to enact their utopian visions
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so his thesis is partly that America is a purified version of extremists within Britain's subcultures
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e.g. Southern aristocrats are British aristocrats who wanted to aristocrat harder than Britain allowed them to
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