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The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
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In this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes an accessible critique of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as Jose Ortega y Gasset (The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These elites - mobile and increasingly global in outlook - refuse to accept limits or ties to nation and place. As they isolate themselves in their networks and enclaves, they abandon the middle class, divide the nation, and betray the idea of a democracy for all America's citizens. This is Lasch's clarion call for a return to the virtues of community, responsibility, and religion.
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The hour is critical. The American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War. Conflicts, hostility, and incivility now threaten to tear the country apart. Competing visions have led to a dangerous moment of cultural self-destruction. This is no longer politics as usual, but an era of political warfare where our enemies are not foreign adversaries, but our fellow citizens. Yet the roots of the crisis are deeper than many realize. Os Guinness argues that we face a fundamental crisis of freedom, as America's genius for freedom has become her Achilles' heel.
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Thought Provoking Work On Liberty In America
- By Ezekiel on 05-28-19
By: Os Guinness
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The End of History and the Last Man
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Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and the Last Man is a modern classic.
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An important discussion expertly narrated
- By Kevin Teeple on 06-27-19
By: Francis Fukuyama
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The Idea of America
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The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history
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Our Divided Political Heart
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Our Divided Political Heart will be the must-listen book of the 2012 election campaign. Offering an incisive analysis of how hyper-individualism is poisoning the nation's political atmosphere, E. J. Dionne Jr., argues that Americans can't agree on who we are because we can't agree on who we've been, or what it is, philosophically and spiritually, that makes us Americans.
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Good points and lots of good information
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Ill Fares the Land
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In Ill Fares The Land, Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment. Judt masterfully crystallizes what we've all been feeling into a way to think our way into, and thus out of, our great collective dis-ease about the current state of things.
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Blah, Blah, Blah.
- By Michael on 07-15-10
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The Lost History of Liberalism
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The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry - and a term of derision - in today's increasingly divided public square. Taking listeners from ancient Rome to today, Helena Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the words "liberal" and "liberalism", revealing the heated debates that have taken place over their meaning. In this timely and provocative book, Rosenblatt debunks the popular myth of liberalism as a uniquely Anglo-American tradition centered on individual rights.
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Educative and informative
- By Amazon Customer on 06-05-19
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On Anarchism
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On Anarchism provides the reasoning behind Noam Chomsky's fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. In these essays, Chomsky redeems one of the most maligned ideologies, anarchism, and places it at the foundation of his political thinking. Chomsky's anarchism is distinctly optimistic and egalitarian. Moreover, it is a living, evolving tradition that is situated in a historical lineage; Chomsky's anarchism emphasizes the power of collective, rather than individualist, action.
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Hit and Miss
- By Jacob King on 06-18-14
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When the Facts Change
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Essential
- By Herman Utik on 09-19-16
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"Fascists", "Brownshirts", "jackbooted stormtroopers" - such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst?
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Great book
- By Mark on 05-10-08
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- Weng Davis
- 11-29-21
Good book but....
This book probably should be read. Definitely lower your speed to 1.00 on the audible app. It has concepts that are very difficult to understand verbally.
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- Tina L Beam
- 11-13-23
What is the hurry?
The analysis of the topic was great. The reader did not give it the performance it deserved. It seemed as if the reader was in a hurry. The reading was so fast in some sections that it sounded like it was a run on sentence. The content of the text was spot on.
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- Eggleston
- 02-08-20
Imagine my surprise . .
When during an interesting passage of this audiobook, it went silent. The numbers kept moving, but no sound! This has happened at several places in other recent books, including some by Joan Didion.
What's going on? QC no longer on the job? Refund coming to me?
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- Del Lewis-Chia
- 08-08-20
The last twenty years proves the author right
We moved from a small town outside Chicago in 2000 to northern VA. What my family has seen and experienced these last twenty years is the rise of plutocracy and oligarchs. Though a heady listening experience, I think the majority of Americans don't understand what is happening to this country. We must come to understand so we can reverse course. Not one for conspiracy theories,I know there is a Few of Them vs. the Rest of Us. We need a government strong enough to enforce the Constitutional rights of us all.
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- ThunderInTheSun
- 02-22-20
Another home run by Lasch!
If you are unfamiliar with the works of Christopher Leach, get familiar (as Jack Nichelson's character said in the movie The Bucket List). This work was a treatise on society in the United States and reflective of the West, in general, on how globalization and the upwardly mobile (then still called Yuppies-the book published in 1994) as well as those who were at the wheel of the information age were dismantling society and the culture as it existed then (moving from the mid 70s to the early 90s) from a more family and community centered landscape to one of a disconnected society of denationalized citizens. Due to their new found wealth and upward mobility, they have become mere spectators of their own democracy with barely a residual hint of patriotism but yet with a fait accompli ideology espoused now by this nouveau riche of narcissism and brazen detachment to community and country. An insightful commentary on the nation's culture then and a prophetic discourse for where it is now.
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- Collin Rudnik
- 01-04-19
Book had good content, but poorly organized
Last chapter was excellent. In others, easy to get lost. This might be better appreciated in book form, where you can digest and ponder each topic.
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- Ben Oakland
- 10-08-20
1993¿?!
Whoever thought republish this book in 2017 knew the cultural mood. I can't believe it was written in 1993. The book hit on every aspect of the current online debate and added way more to the origins of the problems faced today then any youtuber or current author does
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- Julia
- 03-25-23
Aged like Milk Important for Understanding Boomers
This is a book I was happy to reread knowing how important it was to form my thinking when it first came out. Important for me to reexperience the parts I did not "take what you like, leave the rest" . He is a neo Marxist Freudian much of which thinking I probably thought "that's weird" and went on to the next part. Problem being that a lot of people of my generation still think this way, and I will be examining my own foundations to see where I accepted much of this as hard truth.
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