Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11
- ISBN-10
- 0195321286
- ISBN-13
- 9780195321289
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 232
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- OUP USA
- Author
- Andrew R. Murphy
Description
America's supposed moral decline from an imagined golden age, and the threat of divine punishment for the sin of straying from the path of righteousness, have been consistent themes in its political and religious rhetoric. In Prodigal Nation, Andrew Murphy investigates the jeremiad's historical roots and probes the ways in which it continues to illuminate themes and tensions in American social and political life.
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