{"product_id":"myth-america-isbn-9781933385105","title":"Myth America","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI. Myths of Reconstruction \u0026amp; the Gilded Age.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMyth of Reconstruction (Eric Foner).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lost Cause Myth in the New South Era (Charles ReaganWilson).\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 (MiltonGoldin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eII. American Myths at Century’s End.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Winning of the West and the Sioux: A Myth (RichardWhite).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMyths of the American West: Missionaries, Entrepreneurs, and NewIdentites (Patricia Nelson LimerickA).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommanding Performance: Booker T. Washington’s AtlantaCompromise 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 UnitedStates as a World Power (Patrick Gerster and NicholasCords).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIII. Myths of Progressivism \u0026amp; the 1920s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Frontier Myth and Teddy Roosevelt’s Fight forConservation (Leroy G. Dorsey).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWoodrow Wilson, Ethnicity, and the Myth of American Unity (HansVought).\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 ofthe Modern Young Women (John McClymer).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mythic Meaning of Lindbergh’s Flight (John WilliamWard).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIV. Myths of Politics \u0026amp; Foreign Affairs.\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’ … andOther Myths of the Vietnam War (Robert Buzzanco).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Frontier Myth and the Reagan Presidency (RichardSlotkin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Myth of Deterrence and the End of the Cold War (Richard NedLebow and Janice Gross Stein).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eV. Social Myths of Modern America.\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 (CurtisChang).\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholas Cords\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus at Lakewood Community College\/Century College.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989667660005,"sku":"NP9781933385105","price":31.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781933385105.jpg?v=1761785026","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/myth-america-isbn-9781933385105","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}