Scales of Terror : The Manufacturing of Nationalism and the War for U.S. Globalism
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doi:10.4324/9780203724408-9

ABSTRACT

America, you have it better Than our continent that’s old. You have no crumbling castles Nor basalt either. Within, nothing daunts you In times rife with life No memory haunts you Nor vain, idle strife. … —Goethe, 1796