Mythology and Archetypes Inform Our Historical Understanding
Partisan politics and childish history lessons are full of alluring mythology. Presidential candidates and their consultants try to create mythologies about themselves and each other through advertising and news coverage, to cast one candidate on a “hero’s journey” and the opponent on a road to perdition. Elections are often decided on which mythologies…
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