Robert N Bellah
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Examines how individualism and civic responsibility contribute to and detract from America's common good. In the Preface to this edition, the authors relate the arguments of the book both to the current realities of American society and the growing debate about the country's future.
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"In the first edition of Myths America Lives By, Hughes identified the five key myths that lie at the heart of the American experience--the myths of the Chosen Nation, of Nature's Nation, of the Christian Nation, of the Millennial Nation, and of the Innocent Nation. Drawing on a range of dissenting voices, Hughes shows that by canonizing these seemingly harmless myths of national identity as absolute truths, America risks undermining the sweepingly...