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America-lite : how imperial academia dismantled our culture (and ushered in the Obamacrats) / David Gelernter.
- Title
- America-lite : how imperial academia dismantled our culture (and ushered in the Obamacrats) / David Gelernter.
- Author
- Gelernter, David Hillel.
- Publication
- New York : Encounter Books, ©2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E169.12 .G45 2012 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 185 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Discusses how the education quality has change over the years in the United States.
- Subject
- Since 1900
- Education, Higher > History > United States > 20th century
- Social change > United States > History > 20th century
- Political culture > United States > History > 21st century
- Education, Higher > Political aspects
- Intellectual life
- Political culture
- Social change
- Social conditions
- United States > Intellectual life > 20th century
- United States > Social conditions > 1945-
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-170) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Intellectuals and the cultural revolution -- Snapshot 1940 : war, the elite and the thinkers -- The great reform -- Imperial academia -- The road to the late '60s -- Snapshot 1968 : war, the elite and the thinkers -- Today : airheads and Obamacrats -- Asymmetry and balance -- The cultural revolution shapes America.
- ISBN
- 9781594036064 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1594036063 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781594037085 (pbk.)
- 1594037086 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2012003170
- OCLC
- 744288937
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library