chapter 15
...................................................................................................................................................IN THE BEGINNING,
ALL THE WORLD
WAS AMERICA:
AMERICAN
EXCEPTIONALISM IN
NEW CONTEXTS
...................................................................................................................................................ronald j. schmidt, jr.
But you have there the myth of the essential white America. All the
other stuV, the love, the democracy, theXoundering into lust, is a
sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, a
killer. It has never yet melted.
D. H. LawrenceThe man is too thoroughly torn by inner doubt, too constantly in
danger of selling out to his opponents, for a warrior legend ever
successfully to be built around him.... Warrior giants, if they are
legendary, are also frightening, and it is probably a virtue of the
American democrat that he is not a frightening man.
Louis Hartz