Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-188) and index.
Contents:
America in decline : an idea whose time has always come -- The styles of the American Jeremiah -- Allan Bloom : founding father of the modern Jeremiad -- Culture warriors vs. the boomers and Bill Clinton -- Bill O'Reilly and Michael Moore : populist Jeremiahs -- Nativist Jeremiahs -- Jeremiah and Jihad : 9/11 and American decline -- Hillary Rodham Clinton : ambivalent Jeremiah? -- The Jeremiad and American democracy.
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