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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Main Authors: Larsen, Eric, Larsen, Eric, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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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Table of Contents:
  • Watching America go blind
  • The death of literary thinking in America : how it happened and what it means
  • Consumerism, victimology, and the disappearance of the meaningful self
  • I Watching America go blind
  • II. The death of literary thinking in America : how it happened and what it means
  • III. Consumerism, victimology, and the disappearance of the meaningful self.
  • I Watching America go blind
  • II. The death of literary thinking in America : how it happened and what it means
  • III. Consumerism, victimology, and the disappearance of the meaningful self.