From beginnings at Jamestown, Jewett shows, the Americanmythology of divine mission has decisively shaped both domesticand foreign policies of the developing nation, and it remains one ofthe most important forces affecting the United States' role in theworld today. Chapters include: Colonial Beginnings: The City Set Upon a Hill The Second Great Awakening, Manifest Destiny, Reform andReaction From the Civil Rights Movement to the Vietnam War The Political Distortion of Religion: TriumphantFundamentalism, Impeachment, and the War against Terrorismand more. Written in the tradition of Howard Zinn's the volume includes black and white illustrations.