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The Triumph of Meanness: America's War Against Its Better Self
by Mills, Nicolaus
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0395822963
- ISBN 13
- 9780395822968
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 260 pages. Notes, index. Inscription signed by Ralph Nader. The new meanness in our public and private lives, Mills argues, is reflected in many ways, not just in the political shift to the right that has sent welfare back to the states for the first time since the New Deal and that urges us to cut Head Start while adding billions more to the defense budget than the military requested. The new meanness is also style and attitude. We hear it on talk radio when G. Gordon Liddy advises his listeners on the best way to shoot a federal agent. We see it on pay-per-view television in the popularity of extreme fighting, in which combatants slug it out in bare-knuckle brawls held in steel cages. We read about it after law officials raid a California sweatshop where workers werekept under guard and paid fifty cents an hour for sewing. Central to the new meanness, Mills contends, is our feeling that we are no longer a coherent nation bound together by our history. With the end of the Cold War, we have come to apply the language and thinking once used to demonize our enemies abroad to those we believe threaten us internally. Our fears about the economy, combined with the end of the civil rights movement as a moral beacon, have led us to act on the basis of a lifeboat ethics that rewards ruthlessness.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53659
- Title
- The Triumph of Meanness: America's War Against Its Better Self
- Author
- Mills, Nicolaus
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0395822963
- ISBN 13
- 9780395822968
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Affirmative Action, Lorena Bobbitt, Pat Buchanan, Bill Clinton, Counterculture, Social Darwinism, Bob Dole, Downsizing, Racism
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