Introduction: the United States of fantasy
Staging the new world order: Hiroshima, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the Persian Gulf War
America of the two covenants: the Waco siege and the Oklahoma City bombing
A national rite of passage: the return of Alexis de Tocqueville
Patriot acts: the Southernification of America
From virgin land to Ground Zero: mythological foundations of the homeland security state
Antigone's kin: from Abu Ghraib to Barack Obama.
The new American exceptionalism by Donald E. Pease. ISBN 9780816627837. Published by University of Minnesota Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.