Y'all got any pro-American books?

>>9233744
>pro-American
>books

>>9233744

but the best American books are all about how America is fucking terrible

>The Great Gatsby
>The Grapes of Wrath
>The Jungle
>The Scarlet Letter
>every novel about racism ever

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>>9233744

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>>9234188

you posted the wrong version

The Man Without a Country

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Just a reminder to everybody laughing about American education: we are smarter than you. We have the best universities on the planet, have the most living Nobel Prize winners of any nation, and are responsible for countless inventions and scientific and intellectual accomplishments which your lives depend on every day. We earned the position of world's most intelligent nation through the American education system and the imperial measurement system, and we will keep this position through these .

>muh immigrants
>muh per capita

Sorry but these are invalid arguments. The intellectual power of the United States of America is stronger than any of your nations, bar none. Immigrants who choose to make use of our superior universities and higher education system usually become American citizens in order to work alongside their American genius friends and colleagues, making them just as American as me or any of my countrymen. I understand that this might make some of you feel inadequate, so you pick on nonexistent SJW classes that, while retarded, are offered to students because America is a land of freedom to learn anything you choose no matter what. This is our strength, and this is what makes us better than you.

America out
*drops mike*

>>9234367
>we

Which of these institutions did you attend?

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This ones all about capitalism, freedom and economics. Essential reading for all patriots.

>>9234367
>UW ranked above UPenn
I take your point but what a shitty ranking system to accompany your argument

Blood Meridian

>>9234563
Progress and Poverty is objectively the American version of Das Kapital.

Prove me wrong.

>>9234566
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.

>>9233986
Those books are medicore at best.

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>>9234367
>Cambridge 5 places ahead of oxford

hahahahahahah get fucked oxfordfags

>b-but muh 100 years earlier

>>9235231
Jolly, jolly good, Stephans.

>>9234566
who else here /upenn/?
i want a /lit/ friend, especially if youre a christfag

>>9234555
get onst myeth level?

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>>9233986
Melville is the best american author ever

>>9233986
ya comrade, i'd rather live in soviet russia.

>>9235530
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.

>>9235536
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/

>>9235573
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

>>9235580
>>9235580
I guess he's been dubbed "ameribane" by whoever decides these things, anyways check it out:

https://youtu.be/rMqQUabzzsc?t=256

>>9235605
wtf it didn't link to the right time, skip to 4:15 to see the part about "Why Is America Number One?"

>>9235611
ugh never mind it got cut off by one of those local kids interrupting

>>9233986
Yeah. Pro-America propaganda worked out much better in film than it did in literature.

>>9233744
"Democracy in America" by de Tocqueville.

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>>9233986

>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.

>>9233744
>nobody mentions Leaves of Grass

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

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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.

>>9237392
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.

>>9235573
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

>>9237408
did you reply to the wrong post?

>>9237424
No, which of the books that the founding fathers hailed as influential, wasn't considered good in the 'American intellectual community'.

Capitalism and Freedom

>>9236237

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.

>>9236455
yes

>>9237541
They may have extolled what we consider "american values", but they couldn'tve be pro-american before america existed.

>>9237609
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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>>9234367

>>9237631
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

>>9234367
It has become a pasta I see

>>9237747

>ifunny

>>9234216
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%

>>9233986

Cormac McCarty can be added to the list

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The Burger King menu isnt literature

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

It's merely Common Sense

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>>9233973
I lol'ed