TY - BOOK AU - Stow,Simon TI - American Mourning: Tragedy, Democracy, Resilience SN - 9781107158061 (hardback : alk. paper) AV - E169.1 .S76 2017 U1 - 320.54/0973 23 PY - 0000/// CY - , PB - KW - Nationalism KW - United States KW - Democracy KW - Bereavement KW - Political aspects KW - Grief KW - Collective memory N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Pericles at Gettysburg and Ground Zero: tragedy, patriotism, and public mourning -- A homegoing for Mrs. King: on the democratic value of African American responses to loss -- Mourning bin Laden: Aeschylus, victory, and the democratic necessity of political humanism -- Homecoming and reconstitution: nostalgia, mourning, and military return -- Mourning as democratic resilience: going on together in the face of loss ER -