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how America's civil religion betrayed the national interest

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An edition of The tragedy of U.S. foreign policy (2016)

The tragedy of U.S. foreign policy

how America's civil religion betrayed the national interest

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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 the entire course of the country's history, McDougall's book explores the deeply infused religious rhetoric that has sustained and driven an otherwise secular republic through peace, war, and global interventions for more than two hundred years. From the Founding Fathers and the crusade for independence to the Monroe Doctrine, through World Wars I and II and the decades-long Cold War campaign against "godless Communism," this coruscating polemic reveals the unacknowledged but freely exercised dogmas of civil religion that bind together a "God blessed" America, sustaining the nation in its pursuit of an ever elusive global destiny.

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Civil religion, Foreign relations, History, United states, foreign relations, New York Times reviewed

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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 Expectant :
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
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
Obama's world? : the Global Civil Religion Aborts.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-380) and index.

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Tragedy of United States foreign policy

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327.73
Library of Congress
E183.7 .M47153 2016, E183.7 .M33 2016, E183.7.M47153 2016

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x, 408 pages
Number of pages
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9780300211450
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946481852

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