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and Middle East, 179, 191
Gumbel, Andrew, 60–61
H
Haggard, Merle, 115, 121, 243n130
Hannity, Sean, 23, 26, 140, 225n34
Hartz, Louis, 2, 47, 53, 55, 74, 113, 114, 137
Har-Zion, Meir, 195
hatred, nationalistic, 9, 11, 13, 21, 25, 138, 148. See also anti-Semitism
hegemony, 5, 22, 36, 218, 220. See also imperialism
U.S and China, 171, 172, 176
Heine, Heinrich, 199
Hellmann, John, 58
Helms, Jesse, 107
history, study of, 23, 61, 62, 64, 89, 110, 113
Hitler, Adolf, 23, 151, 202, 211. See also Holocaust
Hofstadter, Richard, 2, 8, 48, 130, 154
Hollywood, multiracialism in, 41
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 38
Holocaust, 177, 187, 197, 198, 202, 207, 209, 211, 213, 214
Hopkins, Alphonse Ava, 136
Howe, Irving, 211, 212
Howe, Julia Ward, 54, 126
Hughes, Richard, 55
Hu Jintao, 71
human rights, 33, 36, 63, 70–72, 116, 117, 170, 172, 180, 206, 234n106
Huntington, Samuel, 49, 50, 51, 72, 84, 127, 158
Hussein, Saddam, 20, 122, 132, 151, 167
hypocrisy, in U.S. policy, 19, 39
I
identity, U.S. national, 3, 6, 7, 11, 30, 73
Southern, 103–4
immigrants/immigration, 38, 59, 99, 104, 135, 136
and assimilation, 36, 51, 88, 136
fear/hostility towards, 11, 27, 84, 92, 136
imperialism, U.S., 5, 133, 158, 161, 216. See also hegemony
deceptive tactics in, 23
India, 9, 36–37, 51, 71, 84, 150, 166, 170, 171, 173, 179
colonial, 3, 21, 203
diaspora, 37, 227n77
growth of, 79
Indians, American, 39, 61, 87, 90–91, 95, 102
Inhofe, James, 107, 186–88, 189, 190, 260n33
innocence, as national myth, 49, 53, 57–58, 217
intellectuals, 26, 27, 64–65, 72–73, 184
appeals to, 139, 172
U.S. liberal, 92, 112
international policies/treaties, 6, 57, 65, 70, 75, 190. See also foreign policy, U.S.; unilateralism
Jacobin, 69
U.S. rejection of, 136
interracial marriage/dating, 40, 42, 44
interventionism, 64, 158
Iran, 22, 50, 58, 65, 73, 112, 148, 172, 175, 205
Iraq
al Qaeda link to, 4, 20, 22, 83
U.S. approach to, 184, 196
Iraq War, 21, 22, 56
aftermath of, 8, 121, 123, 159, 174–76, 186, 216
justification for, 8, 14, 20, 64–65, 161
opposition to, 3, 20, 53, 116, 141, 172
support for, 26, 172, 193
Ireland, Northern, 90, 149, 154
Irish Americans, 137–41
Islam, 25, 122, 123–24, 170
hostility to, 4, 122, 148, 152, 154, 189
Islamaphobia, 220
Israel, 7, 14–15
and Christian Right, 89, 96, 151, 185
criticism/hatred of, 141, 158, 179–80, 183, 185
and Israeli lobby, 83, 182, 183, 186, 190, 191, 197, 205, 206, 209, 210, 212
occupation/settlements of, 89, 179, 180, 185–86
threats to, 179, 206
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 179–215
and anti-Semitism, 14, 182–83, 213
conditions for peace in, 180, 184, 185, 190, 191, 204
and democracy, 186–88
and denial of Palestinians, 200, 205, 206
hypocrisy/inconsistency in, 187
Israel’s justification in, 14, 199
liberal views on, 167, 184–85, 189, 205
Palestinian rights in, 187, 188
and U.S. domestic policy on, 157
and U.S. support of Israel, 69, 123, 158, 179–80, 181, 183, 189
and U.S./Israel relationship, 96, 175, 177–78, 182
world view of, 181, 182, 192, 206
J
Jackson, Andrew, 7, 89, 90, 94, 96, 105. See also Nationalism, Jacksonian
Jacksonian tradition, 89–90, 92, 118, 123, 187
Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 64, 157
Japan, 10, 22, 27, 38, 49, 81, 82, 154, 161, 164, 171, 172, 174, 217
Jews American, 42, 89, 184, 190, 199, 204, 205, 212. See also anti-Semitism
in Russia, 39, 210, 211
John Paul II, Pope, 141
Johnson, Chalmers, 171, 176
Johnson, Lyndon B., 98, 142, 166
K
Kagan, Robert, 24, 159, 160
Kant, Immanuel, 115
Kedourie, Elie, 69
Kennan, George, 66, 72, 176, 177
Kennedy, John F., 88, 139, 151, 163
Kerry, John, 93
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 51
Kipling, Rudyard, 19, 31
Kirkpatrick, Jeanne, 72, 170
Kissinger, Henry, 63, 64
Klug, Brian, 14, 214
Know-Nothing Party, 86, 89, 99
Koch brothers/corporation, 77
Kosovo War, 122
Krauthammer, Charles, 13, 15, 70, 123, 160, 166, 182
Kristol, Irving, 7, 8, 26, 72, 121, 157, 163, 212
Kristol, William, 70, 159
Ku Klux Klan, 108, 136, 142
L
Lang, Jack, 32
Lebanon, 4, 180, 193
Lee, Harper, 42
Left, The, 23, 133, 157, 211, 220. See also liberals
Le Pen, Jean-Marie, 34, 36
Lerner, Max, 18, 46, 141
Leslie, Warren, 97
liberals, U.S., 26, 89, 104, 130, 133, 139, 142, 143, 185, 190, 191, 201, 205, 220
criticism of, 23, 77, 123, 206, 210
Likud, 89, 158, 182, 188–89, 205
Limbaugh, Rush, 26, 79, 85, 89, 117, 162
Lincoln, Abraham, 1, 39, 100, 109, 133
Lind, Michael, 16, 61, 77, 100
Lindsay, Vachel, 99
Lindsey, Hal, 148, 149, 152, 189, 196
Lipset, Seymour Martin, 63, 113, 130, 211
London Financial Times, 28
Lott, Trent, 40
Lustick, Ian, 188
M
Maher, Bill, 20
Mailer, Norman, 202
Manfield, Stephen, 133
Marshall, George, 164
Marshall, John, 91
Marty, Martin, 199
martyrdom and nationalism, 199. See also anti-Semitism
Marx, Karl, 12, 153
Maurras, Charles, 85
McCarthyism, 2, 84, 125, 137, 139, 142, 216
McClure’s (magazine), 135
McNeill, William H., 58
McVeigh, Timothy, 113
McWhiney, Grady, 96, 140
Mead, Walter Russell, 35, 41, 88, 102, 115, 124
Media, 24, 25, 26, 45, 53, 83, 142, 167, 173, 190
Meir, Golda, 204
Melville, Herman, 30, 56
messianism
consequences of, 8, 52, 56, 173, 219
foundation for, 3
U.S., 3, 52, 56, 72, 173
middle classes
anxieties of, 9, 80, 84
attitudes of, 43, 44, 55, 86, 137
decline of, 9, 86, 119, 120, 148, 218
Middle East. See also Israeli-Palestinian conflict; specific country
dangers of involvement in, 125, 176, 181, 182, 183, 186, 193
rhetoric of democratizing, 65
U.S. agenda/policies in, 56, 89, 181, 183, 192
military, U.S., 17, 21, 41–42, 44, 68, 72, 112, 123, 148, 156, 160, 165, 173–74, 175, 176, 217
military and economy, 76, 77, 86, 161, 165, 169
Miller, Zell, 101, 109
Mills, C. Wright, 164
Milton, John, 31
Mind of the South, The (Cash), 98
Minogue, Kenneth, 7
mi
norities, 40, 59, 60, 61, 62, 78, 89, 145, 146, 210–11. See also assimilation
perceived threat from, 9, 37
mission civilisatrice, 21, 33. See also “universal mission/nation”
modernism/modernity: fight against, 10, 13, 24, 84, 126, 130, 150
and nationalism, 16
religions’ response to, 133, 134
U.S. example of, 48, 86, 130, 135
moral campaigns, 8, 43, 72, 170, 176
Morocco, 21
Morris, Benny, 188, 203, 208, 261n36
Mosse, George, 24
Mr Y essay, 177
Multilateralism, 67
Muslims/Muslim states. See also Islam
Anti-Semitism among, 210, 213–14
disrespect/hostility towards, 22, 25, 26, 43, 83, 89, 160, 196, 210–11
grievances of, 71, 79
U.S. relations with, 122, 180–81, 183, 192
Myrdal, Gunnar, 38, 94
myth, American nationalist, 2, 31, 52, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 74
N
Napoleon Bonaparte, 33, 82, 176
Nash, Gary B., 60
Nationalism
causes of, 84–85
in China, 1, 13, 15
in Europe, 9, 14, 19, 27
in India, 9, 36–37
irrationality of, 137
Jewish, 198
and socioeconomic change, 9
as strategy, 4
nationalism. See also American Creed/Thesis
American civic, 2, 5
antithesis to, 33–37
and assimilation, 34
in books, 17, 54–55
causes/elements of, 3, 6–8, 13, 27
character of, 2, 4, 6–9, 16, 23
and class differences, 11
exploitation of, 5, 19
and imperialism, 3, 5, 13, 19–22
liberal, 113, 114
and nativism, 7
perils of, 1, 13–15, 36
radicalism of, 8, 9, 14, 28
and regionalist interests, 92
and religion, 10, 18, 23
temperance of, 8
and unilateralism, 3, 16
vs. Jacksonian, 7, 89, 118, 187
National Security Strategy (NSS 2002), 52, 63–64, 176
“nation building,” 53
Native Americans, 39, 87, 90, 201
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), 68, 122, 167, 168, 173, 176, 197
Nazism, 161, 198
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 36, 214
Neoconservatives, 3, 4, 7, 64–65, 69, 71, 72, 157–60, 175
Netanyahu, Benjamin, 180, 185, 186
Newsweek (magazine), 131
New York (magazine), 53
New York Times, 20, 70, 71, 123, 205, 206, 209
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 2, 16, 38, 51–52, 56, 157
Nixon, Richard, 11, 45, 64, 101, 119, 139
Administration, 1, 70
Noonan, Peggy, 29
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). See NATO
North Korea, 22, 71, 159, 170, 174
Novak, Robert D., 70, 148, 184, 189
O
Obama, Barack
attacks on, 5, 28, 43–44, 77, 147, 152, 163–64, 215, 220
domestic policy, 77, 114, 162, 217
and elections
(2008), 5, 44, 62, 101, 184, 216
(2012), 45, 185
foreign policy, 45, 67, 122, 176, 217
hatred of, 11–12, 28, 45, 100, 146
and Middle East, 180–81, 183, 185, 192, 196
program of, 11, 45, 55, 114, 156
race/faith, 7, 38, 40, 43–45, 79, 114
O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 53
O’Reilly, Bill, 14, 26, 89, 117, 140–41
Oslo peace process, 185, 208–9
outcasts, roles of, 227n84
“overclass,” American, 16, 61
Oz, Amos, 179, 200, 213, 268n128
P
Pakistan, 10, 37, 94
Palestinians, 167, 185–86, 195, 204–5, 207, 208. See also Israeli-Palestinian conflict
denial of, 183, 187
Israeli attitude/policy towards, 179, 183, 187, 190, 192, 202, 203
rights of, 180, 185, 201, 204
Palin, Sarah, 5, 25, 45, 77, 85, 123–25, 128, 143
Parade (magazine), 17, 71
partisan politics, suspension of, 29
patriotism, 3, 17, 60, 137
vs. Nationalism, 7–8, 18–19, 23, 84
Paul, Ron, 76, 124–25, 128
Pentecostals, 41, 51, 128
Perle, Richard, 26, 160, 185
Perlmutter, Nathan, 212
Pipes, Daniel, 25, 189, 207
Podhoretz, Norman, 132, 166–67, 212
Poland, 132, 197, 203, 214
polarization in U.S., 6, 101
political correctness, 23, 59, 61–62
and nationalist myth, 59–60, 62
populist nationalism, 42, 89, 98, 138, 142
Powell, Colin, 55, 68, 175, 184
Present Danger, The (Podhoretz), 166
Present Dangers (Kagan, Kristol), 159–60
pride
community, 38, 104, 105, 107, 110, 148
national, 4, 37, 113, 148
Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), 65
Prohibition, 135, 136, 141–42
propaganda, 21, 64, 70, 148, 161, 163, 176
anti-Chinese, 68
anti-Israeli, 212
anti-Muslim, 148
around race, 43–62, 108
Protestantism, 7, 11, 54, 84, 90, 91, 104, 127, 128, 130, 134, 136, 149
Protestants, 87–89, 130, 144
evangelical/fundamentalist, 6, 7, 10, 89, 91, 130, 144
and moral panic, 134–37
nativism in, 84–89
and religious nationalism, 31
Pursuit of the Millennium, The (Cohn), 152
Q
Quinet, Edgar, 32
R
Racism, 38–39. See also Obama and racism
Covert, 27, 43, 79
and cultural conformity, 40
transformation of, 38
Rational Choice theory, 66
Ravitch, Diane, 60
Reagan administration, 57, 70, 120, 132, 139
and national myth, 57–59, 184
“Realism”
character of, 71–72, 145, 154
criticism of, 71, 86, 180, 190
dominance of, 73, 175
“Redneck” culture, 111
Reed, John Shelton, 97, 102, 111
Reed, Ralph, 40, 85, 114, 146
Religion. See also fundamentalist religions; specific religions
conservative, 53, 101, 125, 148, 149
statistics on, 12, 105, 145
Renan, Ernest, 62
Republicans/Republican party. See also Right, The
agenda of, 1, 4, 5, 70, 92, 123, 171
character of, 6, 28, 40, 64, 169
radicalism of, 1, 45, 78, 119, 169
and religious right, 12, 76, 141, 152
rhetoric of, 8, 20, 68–69, 172
and the South, 84, 89–90, 100–102, 143
and strategy around Israel, 101, 180, 189
Rice, Condoleezza, 41, 170
Right, The. See also under Christian Right; Republicans/Republican party
and modernity, 14
and moralistic nationalism, 23, 145, 150
propaganda/rhetoric of, 8, 62, 70
radicalism of, 27, 62, 133
religious, 12, 62, 76, 141, 148, 189
Robertson, Pat, 150, 151, 153, 212
Roman Empire, 38, 39, 151
Romney, Mitt, 93
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 12, 19, 28, 45, 57, 133, 137
Rosenberg, M. J., 170, 183, 184
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 52, 113–14
Rumsfeld, Donald H., 24, 174, 175, 184, 195
Russia, 31–32
attitudes towards, 160, 166
U.S. strategy against, 70, 72, 151, 156, 161, 165–67, 169
S
Sadat, Anwar, 185, 206, 266n105
Said, Edward, 204, 261n40
Salisbury, Lord, 166
Saudi Arabia, 71, 206, 208
Schaller, Thomas, 101
Schlafly, Phyllis, 75, 182
Scotch Irish, 8, 11, 84, 87, 88
Scott, Sir Walter, 105
security, U.S. national, 7
agenda/strategy in, 20, 52, 158, 168, 176
elites, 57, 158, 164, 171, 175
September 11, 2001
Bush administration response to, 1, 3, 14, 16, 22, 24, 56, 63, 151, 175, 217
and nationalism, 16, 20, 23, 148
sympathy after, 29
Serbia, 132, 194
sexual freedom, 86, 112, 146–47
Sharon, Ariel, 89, 182–84, 189, 191, 195, 205, 208
Shils, Edward, 66
Shinseki, Eric, 174
Siegman, Henry, 207, 208
Slavery, 39, 56
and the South, 91, 94, 103, 107, 110, 134
Smith, Al, 99, 138
socialism, prevention of, 22
socioeconomic change, 9, 142
South, The
character of, 7, 11, 84, 87, 90, 104, 109
churches in, 93, 105, 111, 128–29, 134
and Civil War/Reconstruction, 110, 111
compared to the West, 97
economy of, 86, 103, 108
lack of change in, 59, 106
nationalism in, 53, 94, 102–4, 110, 128
political importance of, 91, 100–102
prejudice in, 38, 40, 42, 92, 101, 213
view of, 52–53, 88
violence in, 97, 107
White, 100–105
South Korea, 174, 217
Soviet Union, 38. See also Russia
collapse of, 38, 83, 207
and U.S. strategy towards, 70, 72, 151, 156, 161, 165–67, 169
Sprinzak, Ehud, 188–89
Stalin, Joseph, 56, 138, 157, 162, 203
State Department, U.S., 25, 68, 72, 164, 170, 172, 175, 183, 184, 192, 206
Strauss, Leo, 158, 187
suburbanization, 143–44
subversion, domestic, 24, 161, 172. See also treachery/treason
Sunday, Billy, 30, 136
Supreme Court, 42, 74, 78, 91, 153
T
Taiwan, 148, 159, 169, 170, 172, 174
Taliban, 4, 13, 22, 122, 161
Tea Parties/Party, 2, 73–80, 85, 118–25, 169
activists/leaders, 10, 25, 70, 100, 119, 123–25, 130–31
agenda of, 12, 68, 77–78, 109, 118
and the Constitution, 8, 45, 74–77, 113, 165
and isolationism, 3, 4, 121
and racism, 79
and religion, 8, 76, 84, 114, 127–28, 145–46, 147
terrorism, 94, 108, 122
approaches to, 132, 160
and Israel, 159, 179–80, 186, 194, 195
rhetoric around, 22, 25, 56
strategy issues in, 181
war on, 4, 7, 24, 26, 116–18, 137, 154, 155, 165, 180, 186, 192, 214
Texas, 24, 51, 77, 85, 94–97, 106, 128, 136, 149, 187
Thurmond, Strom, 40, 107
Time (magazine), 13, 17, 170