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English
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Examines the manifest changes in social values and attitudes in recent years, tracing the source of these ideas to the 1960s arguing that the result of liberal, egalitarian, and individualistic philosophies will be the moral and intellectual decline of America.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
The author identifies nine fundamental problems he believes America is facing at the end of the twentieth century, including deteriorating race relations, inadequate health care, and decline of education, and offers his recommendations for solving them.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Glenn Beck uses "chalkboard-style" illustrations to examine political decisions throughout American history which have led to the economic challenges of the early twenty-first century, criticizing the bipartisanship of the Bush and Obama administrations, and explaining the importance of shared sacrifice as a solution.
11) Class matters
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of essays that examine the role that class distinctions plays in the United States despite the concept of the American dream.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
Michael Moore visits a host of nations to learn how the U.S. could improve its own prospects. The creator of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine is back with this hilarious and eye-opening call to arms. Turns out the solutions to America's most entrenched problems already exist in the world. They're just waiting to be co-opted.
13) Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science
Author
Publisher
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At the dawn of the last century, leading scientists and politicians giddily predicted that science-especially Darwinian biology-would supply solutions to all the intractable problems of American society, from crime to poverty to sexual maladjustment. Instead, politics and culture were dehumanized as scientific experts began treating human beings as little more than animals or machines. In criminal justice, these experts denied the existence of free...
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