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Informationen zum Autor Mark Stephen Jendrysik is chair of the department of political science and public administration at the University of North Dakota and author of Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and His Contemporaries. Klappentext This book identifies where modern Jeremiahs place the sources of national decline and their purposed solutions and its analysis also reveals the central problem faced by this form of writing: the need to balance condemnation of certain practices within the democratic polity with calls for repentance. For these writers and political actors, the tensions created by these demands prove impossible to resolve, as the modern jeremiad further divides an already divided nation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Dedication Chapter 2 Table of Contents Chapter 3 Acknowledgements Chapter 4 1 America in Decline: An Idea Whose Time Has Always Come Chapter 5 2 The Styles of the American Jeremiah Chapter 6 3 Allan Bloom: Founding Father of the Modern Jeremiad Chapter 7 4 Culture Warriors vs. the Boomers and Bill Clinton Chapter 8 5 Bill O'Reilly and Michael Moore: Populist Jeremiahs Chapter 9 6 Nativist Jeremiahs Chapter 10 7 Jeremiah and Jihad: 9/11 and American Decline Chapter 11 8 Hillary Rodham Clinton: Ambivalent Jeremiah? Chapter 12 9 The Jeremiad and American Democracy Chapter 13 Bibliography Chapter 14 Index Chapter 15 About the Author
