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Lapham, Lewis H.Lapham, Lewis H.
Summary: "America's leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terror. In twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles of democracy. 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 climb to virtual heights, while society was divided...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.4 LAPSummary: Includes essays and literary works by Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, Clarence Darrow, John Kenneth Galbraith, and H. L. Mencken as well as an essay by Henry L. Stimson (P.A. 1883) on the decision to use the atomic bomb.Contains primary source material.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Square Press 2000