The Rise and Fall of the West
An American Story
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11049252 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Kimmage (corresponding author), M C Kimmage |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 2014 |
| Issue | 168 |
| Pages | 22-44 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/0914168022 |
| OpenAlex | W2328086691 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Only seventeen years after World War II ended, John F. Kennedy made the trip to West Germany. Speaking there in the summer of 1962, Kennedy was obviously an American president on a state visit. Yet he was something else as well. He went so far as to declare himself a Berliner, in West Berlin, immediately likening his declaration to one from classical antiquity—civis romanus sum—and implying a concordance of spirit between the Roman Empire and the recently fashioned NATO alliance. These august associations heartened his German audience. By placing West Germany in a grand historical continuum, stretching back millennia, Kennedy
Alliance · American west · Ancient history · Archaeology · Cold war · Concordance · Declaration · Economic history · Empire · Ethnology · Fall of man · German · Political science · Politics · West germany · Classics · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · German History and Society · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |