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Author : Thomas A. Tutko
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
Author : Richard T. Hughes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,7 MB
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252050800
Six myths lie at the heart of the American experience. Taken as aspirational, four of those myths remind us of our noblest ideals, challenging us to realize our nation's promise while galvanizing the sense of hope and unity we need to reach our goals. Misused, these myths allow for illusions of innocence that fly in the face of white supremacy, the primal American myth that stands at the heart of all the others.
Author : Matthew Yglesias
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0593853881
NATIONAL BESTSELLER What would actually make America great: more people. If the most challenging crisis in living memory has shown us anything, it’s that America has lost the will and the means to lead. We can’t compete with the huge population clusters of the global marketplace by keeping our population static or letting it diminish, or with our crumbling transit and unaffordable housing. The winner in the future world is going to have more—more ideas, more ambition, more utilization of resources, more people. Exactly how many Americans do we need to win? According to Matthew Yglesias, one billion. From one of our foremost policy writers, One Billion Americans is the provocative yet logical argument that if we aren’t moving forward, we’re losing. Vox founder Yglesias invites us to think bigger, while taking the problems of decline seriously. What really contributes to national prosperity should not be controversial: supporting parents and children, welcoming immigrants and their contributions, and exploring creative policies that support growth—like more housing, better transportation, improved education, revitalized welfare, and climate change mitigation. Drawing on examples and solutions from around the world, Yglesias shows not only that we can do this, but why we must. Making the case for massive population growth with analytic rigor and imagination, One Billion Americans issues a radical but undeniable challenge: Why not do it all, and stay on top forever?
Author : James W. Loewen
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 20,41 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1595583262
Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.
Author : David Adams Leeming
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,4 MB
Release : 2000
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0195117840
Presents a variety of myths, tales, and legends. Includes Native American tales about creation, goddesses, trickster gods, the Indian and the white man, as well as Hispanic American, Asian American, Anglo American, and African American stories. Features patriotic heroes, American loners, frontiersman, and tall tales, Western outlaws, lawmen, and cowboys, slave rebels, and Blues legends, among other topics.
Author : Heike Paul
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 2014-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3839414857
This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of the Founding Fathers, the melting pot myth, the myth of the West, and the myth of the self-made man. The chapters provide extended analyses of each of these myths, using examples from popular culture, literature, memorial culture, school books, and every-day life. Including visual material as well as study questions, this book will be of interest to any student of American studies and will foster an understanding of the United States of America as an imagined community by analyzing the foundational role of myths in the process of nation building.
Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 22,26 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555910945
A collection of Native American tales and myths focusing on the relationship between man and nature.
Author : Rudyard Griffiths
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :
Despite generations of talking, trading, intermarrying, and fighting together as allies — not to mention sharing a border — Canadians cherish ideas about the United States that may not be true, ideas that often lead to a distorted perception of American society.American Mythschallenges this conventional wisdom with 15 essays on topics including multiculturalism, health care, diplomacy, the environment, and America’s role as the world’s peacekeeper. Intelligent and thought-provoking, the book is required reading for anyone interested in future relations between the two nations.
Author : Sam Pizzigati
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 160980435X
The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America's political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." However, almost as many Americans--well over half--feel the protests will ultimately have "little impact" on inequality in America. What explains this disconnect? Most Americans have resigned themselves to believing that the rich simply always get their way. Except they don't. A century ago, the United States hosted a super-rich even more domineering than ours today. Yet fifty years later, that super-rich had almost entirely disappeared. Their majestic mansions and estates had become museums and college campuses, and America had become a vibrant, mass middle class nation, the first and finest the world had ever seen. Americans today ought to be taking no small inspiration from this stunning change. After all, if our forbears successfully beat back grand fortune, why can't we? But this transformation is inspiring virtually no one. Why? Because the story behind it has remained almost totally unknown, until now. This lively popular history will speak directly to the political hopelessness so many Americans feel. By tracing how average Americans took down plutocracy over the first half of the 20th Century--and how plutocracy came back-- The Rich Don't Always Win will outfit Occupy Wall Street America with a deeper understanding of what we need to do to get the United States back on track to the American dream.
Author : Richard Weiss
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Success
ISBN : 9780252060434
From the introduction: "Tradition has it that every American child receives, as part of his birthright, the freedom to mold his own life. . . . However inaccurate as a description of American society, the success myth reflects what millions believe that society is or ought to be. The degree to which opportunity has or has not been available in our society is a subject for empirical investigation. It rests within the realm of verifiable fact. The belief that opportunity exists for all is a subject for intellectual analysis and rests within the realm of ideology. This latter dimension of the success myth is the primary focus of this book."