| Contents |
America in decline : an idea whose time has always come -- The styles of the American Jeremiah -- Allan Bloom : founding father of the modern Jeremiad -- Culture warriors vs. the boomers and Bill Clinton -- Bill O'Reilly and Michael Moore : populist Jeremiahs -- Nativist Jeremiahs -- Jeremiah and Jihad : 9/11 and American decline -- Hillary Rodham Clinton : ambivalent Jeremiah? -- The Jeremiad and American democracy. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-188) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007049972 |
| ISBN | 9780739121917 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 073912191X (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780739121924 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0739121928 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
