{"product_id":"myth-america-isbn-9781933385136","title":"Myth America","description":"The idea for Myth America grew out of our won teaching experiences. In continuously dealing with students who for the most part were beginning their collegiate study of American history, we found that a thematic approach to the nation’s past was stimulating. The theme of myth as threads within the diverse tapestry of cultural experience proved to be especially engaging. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe selected historical myths discussed and analyzed in Myth America can best be understood as a series of false beliefs about America’s past. They are false beliefs, however, that have been accepted as true and acted upon as real, and in that acting they have acquired truth. Therefore, myths remain both true and false simultaneously. In fact, the making of myths is a process by which a culture structures its world and perpetuates its grandest dreams.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhile offering a strong foundation of classic historical writing and interpretation, Myth America includes numerous fresh selections on womens’ history, southerners and American regionalism, popular culture, African American stereotyping, urban America, controversial leaders such as Booker T. Washington, progressivism in relation to both conservation and ethnicity, the nature and legacy of the Great War, World War II, and Vietnam, President Kennedy and Reagan, mythic dynamics of the Cold War, Asian-Americans, and multiculturalism. We have been guided in our final selections by a desire to offer articles that voice our mythic theme in a scholarly and provocative way: articles that offer students readability and current interest without sacrificing the demands of thorough historical scholarship. We occasionally refer to historiography, for historians function as the culture’s preeminent storytellers and so maintain their seemingly contradictory roles of mythmakers and myth-debunkers.\u003c\/p\u003e  Preface. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. Myths of Reconstruction \u0026amp; the Gilded Age\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMyth of Reconstruction (Eric Foner).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lost Cause Myth in the New South Era (Charles Reagan Wilson).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Agrarian Myth (Richard Hofstadter).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrontierswomen: Myths and Realities (Glenda Riley).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTen-Gallon Hero: The Myth of the Cowboy (David Brion Davis).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAndrew Carnegie and the Robber Baron Myth (Milton Goldin)\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. American Myths at Century’s End\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Winning of the West and the Sioux: A Myth (Richard White).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMyths of the American West: Missionaries, Entrepreneurs, and New Identites (Patricia Nelson LimerickA).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommanding Performance: Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise Address (David Lionel Smith).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Horatio Alger Myth (Carol Nackenoff).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMythology and Workers’ Power (Herbert G. Gutman).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ‘May Day’ Myth: The Emergence of the United States as a World Power (Patrick Gerster and Nicholas Cords)\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. Myths of Progressivism \u0026amp; the 1920s\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Frontier Myth and Teddy Roosevelt’s Fight for Conservation (Leroy G. Dorsey).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWoodrow Wilson, Ethnicity, and the Myth of American Unity (Hans Vought).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSilent Cinema as Historical Mythmaker (John Hope Franklin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Myth of the Disillusioned American Soldier (David M. Kennedy).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Sadie Knew: The Immigrant Working Girl and the Emergence of the Modern Young Women (John McClymer).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mythic Meaning of Lindbergh’s Flight (John William Ward)\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV. Myths of Politics \u0026amp; Foreign Affairs\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lengthening Shadow of FDR: An Enduring Myth (William E. Leuchtenburg).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Myth of New Deal Radicalism (Paul K. Conkin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Myth of the Good War (Richard Polenberg).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Myth of the Placid 1950s (Robert D. Marcus).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Kennedy Myth (Herbert S. Parmet).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘With One Hand Tied Behind Their Back’ … and Other Myths of the Vietnam War (Robert Buzzanco).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Frontier Myth and the Reagan Presidency (Richard Slotkin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Myth of Deterrence and the End of the Cold War (Richard Ned Lebow and Janice Gross Stein)\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eV. Social Myths of Modern America\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Myth of the Feminine Mystique (Joanne Meyerowitz).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMythology and the Charismatic Leadership of Martin Luther King (Clayborne Carson).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Chicano Image and the Myth of Aztlan Rediscovered (John R. Chavez).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStreets of Gold: The Myth of the Model Minority (Curtis Chang).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevolution in Indian Country (Fergus M. Bordewich).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMyth, the Melting Pot, and Multiculturalism (Carl N. Degler)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePatrick Gerster\u003c\/b\u003e is Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at San Jose City College.  The idea for Myth America grew out of our won teaching experiences. In continuously dealing with students who for the most part were beginning their collegiate study of American history, we found that a thematic approach to the nation’s past was stimulating. The theme of myth as threads within the diverse tapestry of cultural experience proved to be especially engaging. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe selected historical myths discussed and analyzed in Myth America can best be understood as a series of false beliefs about America’s past. They are false beliefs, however, that have been accepted as true and acted upon as real, and in that acting they have acquired truth. Therefore, myths remain both true and false simultaneously. In fact, the making of myths is a process by which a culture structures its world and perpetuates its grandest dreams.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhile offering a strong foundation of classic historical writing and interpretation, Myth America includes numerous fresh selections on womens’ history, southerners and American regionalism, popular culture, African American stereotyping, urban America, controversial leaders such as Booker T. Washington, progressivism in relation to both conservation and ethnicity, the nature and legacy of the Great War, World War II, and Vietnam, President Kennedy and Reagan, mythic dynamics of the Cold War, Asian-Americans, and multiculturalism. We have been guided in our final selections by a desire to offer articles that voice our mythic theme in a scholarly and provocative way: articles that offer students readability and current interest without sacrificing the demands of thorough historical scholarship. We occasionally refer to historiography, for historians function as the culture’s preeminent storytellers and so maintain their seemingly contradictory roles of mythmakers and myth-debunkers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989667692773,"sku":"NP9781933385136","price":31.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781933385136.jpg?v=1761785026","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/myth-america-isbn-9781933385136","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}