| CONTENTS |
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| Introduction |
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| Part I: America's Heroic Ideal |
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| Prelude: The Aspiration Toward Greatness |
2 |
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| 1. Two Souls Within the Human Beast |
9 |
| The Spirits of Youth and Authority |
9 |
| One Plus One Equals Three |
12 |
| America's Alternating Current |
15 |
| America's Bias |
17 |
| The Fallout from Fallout Out of Balance |
21 |
| A Big Bang |
25 |
| The American Heroic Ideal, Yesterday and Today |
27 |
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| 2. The Revolutionary |
29 |
| A Distant Galaxy |
29 |
| The Recognition of Necessity |
32 |
| The Cultivation of Character |
35 |
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| 3. The Frontiersman |
39 |
| The Backwoods Boasters |
39 |
| The Quitessential American Hero |
43 |
| The Mysterious Indianization of the American People |
46 |
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| 4. Contemporary Heroic Idealism |
50 |
| The Continuing Saga of the Cowboy |
50 |
| A Simple Problem |
52 |
| The Heroism of Sports |
53 |
| The Divided Hero |
56 |
| The Divided Society |
59 |
| The Diffusion of the Heroic Ideal |
62 |
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