| Author | Sunic, Tomislav |
|---|---|
| Full Title | Homo Americanus: Child of the Postmodern Age |
| Binding | Softcover |
| Publisher | BookSurge (2007) |
| Pages | 252 |
| ISBN | 1419659847 |
| Language | English |
| Short Description | In this book Tomislav Sunic describes the origins and dynamics of America’s founding myths. Quoting and translating from many long-forgotten or suppressed sources from the fields of literature, history, anthropology and philosophy, the book represents an interdisciplinary compendium dealing with the topic of Americanism. The genealogy of early Calvinist Puritanism mixed with the techno-scientific religion of boundless economic progress and legally veiled in the obscure para-Biblical and Jewish-inspired sense of political self-chosenness, created a system that has little in common with its original design. Postmodern Americanism, with its abstract theories of multiculturalism and its global desire for world improvement, turned America into a menacing and self-destructive continent that puts not only the survival of America’s European heritage at risk, but threatens the heritage of other peoples worldwide as well. |
| Table of Contents | Preface
Chapter I: Americanism and Anti-Americanism The Oddity of American Democracy |
| About the Author | Tomislav Sunic was born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1953. He studied French and English at the University of Zagreb before taking a Master's degree at California State University, Sacramento. He received a doctorate in political science in 1988 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has served as a professor at California State University, the University of California, and Juniata College in Pennsylvania, and has lectured widely in Europe and the United States. Articles, reviews and essays by Dr. Sunic have appeared in a range of periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde and Chronicles. He has been interviewed many times on radio and television, including CNN and The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour. |
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