The rhetoric of failure and the making of American modernism False starts：The rhetoric of failure and the making of American modernism the fall of an empire and the making of America's Vietnam the rise of finance and the fall of american business the discovery of insulin, and the making of a medical miracle the law of victory and the making of modern war the Kerner Commission and the unraveling of American liberalism Body & Soul：The Making of American Modernism moral minorities and the making of american democracy / the great war and the making of the modern world