| Description |
xiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
MYTHS OF EARLY AMERICA -- The first Americans: beyond the stereotypes -- America as Europe's paradise: Columbus' brave new world -- Slavery in a New World paradise -- Myths of colonial development -- MYTHS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD -- Causes of the War for Independence: myths and realities -- Collected myths of the war years -- The illusion of unity: the American Loyalists -- The myth and legend of the Founding Fathers -- MYTHS OF THE NATIONAL PERIOD -- George Washington and the growth of a national mythology -- Myths of early American foreign policy: realism and idealism -- The legendary Virginians: Jefferson and Madison -- The mythology of the first western frontier -- MYTHS FROM "THE AGE OF THE COMMON MAN" -- Andrew Jackson: the myth and the man -- Jacksonian democracy: mirage or movement? -- Religion, reform, and race relations: rhetoric and reality -- America as peaceful belligerent: Manifest Destiny and Mexico -- THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE SOUTH -- The plantation legend -- The northern origins of southern mythology -- Cavalier and Yankee: synthetic stereotypes -- Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and the Confederate myth -- MYTHS OF THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION -- Causes of the Civil War: myths and realities -- Collected myths of the war years -- Abraham Lincoln and his mythology -- The legends of Reconstruction -- AMERICAN MYTHS AT CENTURY'S END -- Hero of "The last frontier": the American cowboy -- Myths of the yeoman farmer and the self-made man -- The gay nineties: a misconception -- America's rise to world power: reality and fiction -- MYTHS OF PROGRESSIVISM AND THE 1920s -- Progressivism: movement or mirage? -- The Progressive personality: Roosevelt and Wilson -- America and the First World War: Myths and realities -- The "Roaring Twenties": fact or fiction? -- MYTHOLOGY OR ROOSEVELT, THE NEW DEAL, AND BEYOND -- Legacy and legend: FDR and the New Deal -- America and the era of the Second World War: realities and myths -- Postwar America: distorted realities. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Subject |
United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Cords, Nicholas.
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| ISBN |
0024732907 |
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