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A Great Disorder

National Myth and the Battle for America
  • Richard S. Slotkin
2024
Belknap Press

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Featured Excerpts

  • Cover of "A Great Disorder" by Richard Slotkin, depicting the outline of the United States made out of cracked stone, overlaid with the American flag.
    Book Review

    American Mythology

    Is the United States a prisoner of its own mythology?
    by Tom Zoellner via Los Angeles Review of Books on October 4, 2024
  • Cover of "A Great Disorder."
    Book Review

    In Need of a New Myth

    Myths to explain American history and chart a path to the future once helped to bind the country together. Today, they are absorbed into the culture wars.
    by Eric Foner via London Review of Books on June 26, 2024
  • Richard Slotkin.
    Q&A

    “A Theory of America”: Mythmaking with Richard Slotkin

    "I was always working on a theory of America."
    by Kathleen Belew, Richard S. Slotkin via Public Books on April 19, 2024
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