Y'all got any pro-American books?

>UW ranked above UPenn
I take your point but what a shitty ranking system to accompany your argument

Blood Meridian

Progress and Poverty is objectively the American version of Das Kapital.

Prove me wrong.

I think world rankings tend to account for research funding and publication impact more than the usual domestic rankings which focus on the undergraduate experience.

Those books are medicore at best.

>Cambridge 5 places ahead of oxford

hahahahahahah get fucked oxfordfags

>b-but muh 100 years earlier

Jolly, jolly good, Stephans.

who else here /upenn/?
i want a Veeky Forums friend, especially if youre a christfag

get onst myeth level?

Melville is the best american author ever

ya comrade, i'd rather live in soviet russia.

If you can't see the fault in your nation, you may as well be a Bolshevik. Striving to be the city on the hill is what we do here.

america is far from perfect and has plenty of faults, such as poverty and the decay of infrastructure, even widespread infant circumcision.
with that said, america is one of the geographically largest and most diverse countries on the planet, which creates many more problems than sweden and other socialist "utopias," are presented with, but the self loathing in popular culture is a result of the absurd idea that there has to be some place "better." no, the world sucks, it's just a little less shittier in america, which many authors realize/ed/

the best argument in favor of america i can remember was from that "orange bro" or whatever on hwndu, he really made a good case why america is "where u want to be" as he put it, let me see if i can find it on youtube in case u didn't watch hwndu

I guess he's been dubbed "ameribane" by whoever decides these things, anyways check it out:

youtu.be/rMqQUabzzsc?t=256

wtf it didn't link to the right time, skip to 4:15 to see the part about "Why Is America Number One?"

ugh never mind it got cut off by one of those local kids interrupting

Yeah. Pro-America propaganda worked out much better in film than it did in literature.

"Democracy in America" by de Tocqueville.

>every novel about racism ever
>best American books

I love how Americans think that they're the only people to ever be racist, and that this is some special burden that they have to bear and atone for, not without a lot of ostentatious shows of guilt and repentance of course. I'm actually being sarcastic I think this behavior is disgusting and an affront to human dignity.

>nobody mentions Leaves of Grass

I'm not even American and I know this is the obvious pick. Is Veeky Forums that badly read?

For americans, being patriotic is unamerican; you are expected to break the status qou and be unique, individual, disestablishmentarian and disiconiclastic. If there are any pro-american books they probably aren't considered good in the American intellectual community.

Oh on the contrary, America was founded on great values. Our founding fathers were well read. I wonder how many books Donald Trump has read on ethics or morality.

Well the main intention of American authors is too highlight the faults of society so they can be improved upon to help our march up the steps to the infinitley far off goal of PROGRESS.

like such a ridiculous concept even exists lol

did you reply to the wrong post?

No, which of the books that the founding fathers hailed as influential, wasn't considered good in the 'American intellectual community'.

Capitalism and Freedom

Our biggest mistake must have been freeing the slaves. They've never forgiven us for it.

Fear&Loathing in Las Vegas is the last time I've seen someone genuinely believe in the American Dream. Draw your conclusions.

yes

They may have extolled what we consider "american values", but they couldn'tve be pro-american before america existed.

There were definitely books arguing for the validity of a more democratic system of government to wrestle power away from the abusive hands of monarchy before America existed, yes.

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Yea but those books were arguing for a modern democracy, not america explicitly. They could more aptly be considered pro-athenian rather than pro-american

It has become a pasta I see

>ifunny

I love this book...err short story and I did enjoy Kurt Vonnegut's similarly titled work even though I probably don't agree with his politics 100%

Cormac McCarty can be added to the list

The Burger King menu isnt literature

>England a shite
>monarchy a shite
>Papacy a shite
>Murica number one

It's merely Common Sense

I lol'ed