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America's meltdown : the lowest-common-denominator society

Title: America's meltdown : the lowest-common-denominator society / John Boghosian Arden.
Author: Arden, John Boghosian.
Publication: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

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Description

vi, 234 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"This book examines contemporary American consciousness, considering the factors that have driven society toward gossip and sensationalism at the cost of substance and depth." "Arden discusses the growing epidemic of acrimony, superficiality, attention deficit disorder, and complaints of ennui. He targets the reasons why American children have expressed their confused rage with deadly weapons, why a president boasts that he earned C's in college, and why society has drifted into craving entertainment laced with violence and cheap thrills. The book is provocative reading for concerned citizens, as well as for scholars and researchers involved with contemporary American culture and society."--Jacket.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-230) and index.

Contents

The meltdown -- Cyberspaced -- Vicarious living -- Infotainment -- Retail government -- Lock and load -- The bottom of the barrel -- Shopping and dropping -- Men and women are from Earth -- Hyped sports -- Waging the soul -- Punching the clock -- McMedicine -- Shrink wrap -- Dumbsizing the schools -- Mall art -- The spiritual supermarket -- Rebuilding the future.

ISBN

0275976394
9780275976392

LCCN

2002030727

OCLC

ocm50403851
50403851
SCSB-9537962

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library