DALE CARTER is Associate Professor of American Studies and Director of the American Studies Center at the Department of English, University of Aarhus, Denmark. He is the author of The Final Frontier: The Rise and Fall of the American Rocket State, and editor of Cracking the Ike Age: Aspects of Fifties America and Blood on the Nash Ambassador: Explorations in American Culture. - ROBIN CLIFTON is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the author of The Last Popular Rebellion: The Western Rising of 1685.