Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The United States of Fantasy
1. Staging the New World Order: Hiroshima, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the Persian Gulf War
2. America of the Two Covenants: The Waco Siege and the Oklahoma City Bombing
3. A National Rite of Passage: The Return of Alexis de Tocqueville
4. Patriot Acts: The Southernification of America
5. From Virgin Land to Ground Zero: Mythological Foundations of the Homeland Security State
6. Antigone's Kin: From Abu Ghraib to Barack Obama
Notes
Index

About the Author

Donald E. Pease is Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities at Dartmouth College and director of the Futures of American Studies Institute. He is the author of Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context and the editor of several volumes including, with Amy Kaplan, Cultures of United States Imperialism.