Modern Jeremiahs

Mark Stephen Jendrysik is chair of the department of political science and public administration at the University of North Dakota and author of Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and His Contemporaries.

• Chapter 1 DedicationChapter 2 Table of ContentsChapter 3 AcknowledgementsChapter 4 1 America in Decline: An Idea Whose Time Has Always ComeChapter 5 2 The Styles of the American JeremiahChapter 6 3 Allan Bloom: Founding Father of the Modern JeremiadChapter 7 4 Culture Warriors vs. the Boomers and Bill ClintonChapter 8 5 Bill O'Reilly and Michael Moore: Populist JeremiahsChapter 9 6 Nativist JeremiahsChapter 10 7 Jeremiah and Jihad: 9/11 and American DeclineChapter 11 8 Hillary Rodham Clinton: Ambivalent Jeremiah?Chapter 12 9 The Jeremiad and American DemocracyChapter 13 BibliographyChapter 14 IndexChapter 15 About the Author

Modern Jeremiahs explores America's favorite narrative — the dire warning of terrible decline. We've been going to hell in a hand basket since the Puritans arrived. But, as Jendrysik artfully demonstrates, our tales of woe have profoundly changed — and with far reaching consequences. Elegant, engaging, infuriating, funny, insightful and highly recommended.