Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: The Peculiar Tale of American Exceptionalism 1
4. 1. The Puritans and American Chosenness 20
5. 2. Looking Back, Looking Forward: Remembering the Revolution 31
6. 3. Cultural Nationalism and the Origins of American Exceptionalism 45
7. 4. Lyman Beecher, Personal Identity, and the Christian Republic 61
8. 5. Women and Exceptionalism: The Self-Made Woman and the Power of Catharine Beecher 81
9. 6. Race, Anglo-Saxonism, and Manifest Destiny 95
10. 7. In the Hands of an Angry God: The Antislavery Jeremiad and the Origins of the Christian Nation 111
11. 8. Fin de Siècle Challenges: The Frontier, Labor, and American Imperialism 125
12. 9. Two Isms: Americanism and Socialism 141
13. 10. The Dream and the Century: The Liberal Exceptionalism of the New Deal State, 1930s–1960s 161
14. 11. The Newly Chosen Nation: Exceptionalism from Reagan to Trump 182
15. Afterword 198