The tragedy of U.S. foreign policy : how America's civil religion betrayed the national interest /
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter A. McDougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that "God is on our side" has inspired U.S. foreign policy ever since 1776. The first comprehensive study of the role played by civil religion in U.S. foreign relations over...
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : 9/11 in Parallax Vision :
- 1. Why the Bush blunders?
- 2. Why the imperial overstretch?
- 3. Why the American heresies?
- Washington's World : the Civil Church Expectatnt :
- 4. A divine-right republic in the family of nations
- 5. Washington's farewell address
- 6. Thomas Jefferson and the utopian temptation
- 7. John Quincy Adams and the problem of neighborhood of neighborhood
- 8. Manifest destiny
- 9. European revolutions and American civil war
- 10. The gilded age : last years of orthodoxy
- Wilson's World : the Civil Church Militant :
- 11. ¡Cuba libre!
- 12. The progressive social gospel
- 13. Benevolent assimilation
- 14. Twentieth-century trends
- 15. Wilson's war
- 16. Wilson's peace
- Roosevelt's World : the Civil Church Agonistes :
- 17. Modern explosions
- 18. The progressive Republican denouement
- 19. Roosevelt the isolationist
- 20. Roosevelt the interventionist
- 21. World War II : the great masquerade
- 22. Roosevelt the failed high priest
- Kennedy's World : the Civil Church Triumphant
- 23. The cradles of cold war theology
- 24. High priestly prayers
- 25. Impossible dreams
- 26. Age of Aquarius
- 27. A purgatory in time
- 28. The power of words
- Obams's world? : the Global Civil Religion Aborts