Packet M: Tossup 4

A book about this country by Henry Nash Smith inspired the name of the “myth and symbol” school. Political largesse in this country was likened to a “great barbecue” by the author of a book on the “Main Currents” in its thought, Vernon (10[2])Louis Parrington. (10[1])A “middle landscape” (10[2])in this country aims to reconcile technology with its “pastoral ideal” according to Leo Marx’s The Machine in the Garden. Progressive historians of this country like (-5[1])Charles A. Beard (10[3])were criticized by (10[1])members (10[1])of (10[1])the (10[2])consensus school like (10[1])Daniel Boorstin. (-5[1])Robert Bellah identified (-5[1])a “civil religion” (10[3])native (10[2])to this country. (10[7])A book about this country (10[2])coined the term “tyranny of the majority” and describes (10[2])a tour of its (10[2])prison system. (10[3]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name (10[1])this country whose sense of exceptionalism (10[2])was noted (10[2])by a (10[1])visiting (10[1])Alexis de Tocqueville. ■END■ (10[6]0[1])

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