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Introduction | ||
Pt. I | America's Heroic Ideal | |
Prelude: The Aspiration Toward Greatness | 2 | |
1 | Two Souls Within the Human Breast | 9 |
2 | The Revolutionary | 29 |
3 | The Frontiersman | 39 |
4 | Contemporary Heroic Idealism | 50 |
Pt. II | The High Life | |
Prelude: The Metaphor of Height | 66 | |
5 | The Commercialism of America's Heroic Ideal | 71 |
6 | Heroic Mania | 87 |
7 | The Imitation of Heroism | 100 |
8 | Heroic Tunnel Vision | 107 |
9 | The Escape from Heroism | 122 |
10 | The Metaphor of Depth | 133 |
Pt. III | The Underside of Innocence | |
Prelude: The Style of Innocence | 144 | |
11 | The Historical Roots of American Innocence | 149 |
12 | Jefferson's Bastards | 166 |
13 | The Land of the Overrated Child | 187 |
14 | The Metaphor of the Eternally Young Hero | 209 |
15 | The Explosion of Innocence | 221 |
16 | The Metaphor of America's Darkness | 238 |
17 | The Implosion of Innocence | 264 |
18 | The Sacrifice of Innocence | 276 |
Pt. IV | The Fate of America | |
Prelude: The Unpredictable Nature of History | 284 | |
19 | America in the Third Millennium | 287 |
Notes | 309 | |
Acknowledgments | 343 | |
Index | 347 | |
About the Author | 368 |
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