Visions of National Destiny
Visions of National Destiny
This chapter shows that throughout the nineteenth century, the country's cultural, political, and religious leaders spewed forth an excessive amount of bombast and hyperbole about national greatness and America's global mission. Not even a bloody and bitter Civil War tempered or moderated this patriotic excess. At century's end, a host of chauvinistic patriots, or “ jingoes” as they were called, reveled in the fact that the United States had gained an overseas empire and had joined the club of imperial nations shouldering the white man's burden. Years before, in the antebellum period, John Tyler was at the forefront of these shining lights among the post-Revolutionary generation who confidently hailed the nation's future glory and international luster.
Keywords: religious leaders, national greatness, global mission, Civil War, patriotic excess
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