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The Myth of the American Superhero John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002.
This book raises the lid on the boiling cauldron of democracy and what cooks within it, describes the flames scorching inside and asks if it can continue to burn without leading American society to its own destruction. America, the authors outline, was born a monomyth of its own uniqueness and specialness in the eyes of God, an eden...