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| Part III: The Underside of Innocence |
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| Prelude: The Style of Innocence |
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| 11. The Historical Roots of American Innocence |
149 |
| The American Vision |
149 |
| The American Vision as a Paradigm of Innocence |
154 |
| The Innocence of Humanism |
162 |
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| 12. Jefferson's Bastards |
166 |
| The Diffusion of the American Vision |
166 |
| The Cult of Novelty |
168 |
| The Cult of Freedom |
172 |
| The Cult of Happiness |
180 |
| The Idolization of an Ephemeral Self |
183 |
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| 13. The Land of the Overrated Child |
187 |
| The Cult of Childhood |
187 |
| The Madness of Child Abuse |
192 |
| Divorce and the Long Reach of Childhood |
197 |
| The Pro-Life Movement and the Cult of Childhood |
200 |
| The Cry for Initiation |
201 |
| The Puerile Society |
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| 14. The Metaphor of the Eternally Young Hero |
209 |
| The Language of Images and the Imagination |
209 |
| The Myth of JFK and the Conspiracy Theory |
210 |
| Why Elvis Presley Won't Die |
215 |
| Rock 'n' Roll and the Dionysian Death |
217 |
| Death-Heroes and the Wish for Transformation |
219 |
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| 15. The Explosion of Innocence |
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| War and Imperialism, American Style |
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| America's Messianic Complex |
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| Violence as the Fist of Innocence |
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| 16. The Metaphor of America's Darkness |
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| The Roots of American Racism |
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| The Infantilization of the African-American |
244 |
| The Rage of the Disesteemed |
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