A nation gone blind : America in an age of simplification and deceit /
"A society once proud of its moral and social progress has now become a society devoted more to desperation and distraction than to continuing the work of building a humane commonwealth. Born in 1941, novelist, critic, and teacher Eric Larsen sees his own lifetime as paralleling the arc of this...
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Emeryville, CA : [Berkeley, Calif.] :
Shoemaker & Hoard ; Distributed by Publishers Group West,
[2006], ©2006
Emeryville, CA : [Berkeley, Calif.] : Shoemaker? ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2006 Emeryville, CA : [Berkeley, Calif.] : ©2006 |
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| Summary: | "A society once proud of its moral and social progress has now become a society devoted more to desperation and distraction than to continuing the work of building a humane commonwealth. Born in 1941, novelist, critic, and teacher Eric Larsen sees his own lifetime as paralleling the arc of this national dissolution. In three essays, he describes an increasingly desperate situation. A blindness has set in, he argues, producing writers no longer able to write, professors more harmful than helpful, a replacement virtually nation-wide of thinking with feeling - while the population seems unable to grasp even the remotest outlines of such dangerous, radical change." "In the tradition of George Orwell, Upton Sinclair, Paul Goodman, and Christopher Lasch, Eric Larsen offers his critique of where we were, where we are, and where we are going if we don't watch out."--BOOK JACKET "A society once proud of its moral and social progress has now become a society devoted more to desperation and distraction than to continuing the work of building a humane commonwealth. Born in 1941, novelist, critic, and teacher Eric Larsen sees his own lifetime as paralleling the arc of this national dissolution. In three essays, he describes an increasingly desperate situation. A blindness has set in, he argues, producing writers no longer able to write, professors more harmful than helpful, a replacement virtually nation-wide of thinking with feeling - while the population seems unable to grasp even the remotest outlines of such dangerous, radical change." "In the tradition of George Orwell, Upton Sinclair, Paul Goodman, and Christopher Lasch, Eric Larsen offers his critique of where we were, where we are, and where we are going if we don't watch out."--Jacket |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | 291 p. : ill. ; 21 cm 291 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-291) Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-291) |
| ISBN: | 1593760981 9781593760984 |