Age of Folly: America Abandons Its Democracy
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (595 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1786630443 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Lewis H. He was inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame in 2007. His other books include Money and Class in America, Fortune’s Child, Imperial Masquerade, The Wish for Kings, Hotel America, Waiting for the Barbarians, Theater of War, The Agony of Mammon, <
“Without doubt our greatest satirist—elegant, honorable, learned and fair. I love reading him.” —Kurt Vonnegut “Lewis Lapham—born of Mark Twain and H. Should he wander onto the premises of Fox TV, he’d surely be shot down like a dog.” —Liz Smith “Lapham’s indignation is ecumenical, his scorn spread as smoothly as butter from left to right and north to south across the face of contemporary America.” —Boston Globe “Lapham is a wonderful writer, a connoisseur of the perfect word.” —Business Week “The combination of Lapham’s urbane prose and lethal wit … makes for delightful reading.” —Forbes “To read Lapham’s work, so erudite and conscientious, is to realize that saving our democracy will take bold-
"Why Trump? Why Clinton? Why Reagan? Why Bush?" according to Matthew Stevenson. If you want to understand, both historically and contemporaneously, how the United States traded in its democracy for a sound-and-light reality show, look no further than this wonderful collection of essays by Lewis H. Lapham. Each sentence here is a delight, and while the conclusions are dark, there is hope for any country that can produce such a vibrant thinker and writer.. Five Stars Superb writer.. Five Stars America's greatest essayist!
The new millennium saw the democratic election of an American president nullified by the Supreme Court, and the pretender launching a wasteful, vainglorious and never-ending war on terror, doomed to end in defeat and the loss of America’s prestige abroad.All this culminates in the sunset swamp of the 2016 election—a farce dominated by Donald Trump, a self-glorifying photo-op bursting star-spangled bombast in air. America’s leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terrorIn twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles of democracy. This spectacle would be familiar to Aristotle, whose portrayal of the “prosperous fool” describes a class of people who “consider themselves worthy to hold public office, for they already have the things that give them a claim to office.”. The self-glorifying march of folly steps off at the end of the Cold War, in an era when delusions of omnipotence allowed the market to