Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: The Peculiar Tale of American Exceptionalism
1. The Puritans and American Chosenness
2. Looking Back, Looking Forward: Remembering the Revolution
3. Cultural Nationalism and the Origins of American Exceptionalism
4. Lyman Beecher, Personal Identity, and the Christian Republic
5. Women and Exceptionalism: The Self-Made Woman and the Power of Catharine Beecher
6. Race, Anglo-Saxonism, and Manifest Destiny
7. In the Hands of an Angry God: The Antislavery Jeremiad and the Origins of the Christian Nation
8. Fin de Siècle Challenges: The Frontier, Labor, and American Imperialism
9. Two Isms: Americanism and Socialism
10. The Dream and the Century: The Liberal Exceptionalism of the New Deal State, 1930s-1960s
11. The Newly Chosen Nation: Exceptionalism from Reagan to Trump
Afterword