Bibliograph

Culture of complaint, the fraying of America, Robert Hughes

Type

Label

Culture of complaint, the fraying of America, Robert Hughes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Culture of complaint

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

27035507

Responsibility statement

Robert Hughes

Sub title

the fraying of America

Summary

This book is a call for the re-knitting of a fragmented and over-tribalized America--a deeply passionate book, filled with barbed wit and devastating takes on public life, both left and right of center. To the right, the author fires broadsides at the populist demagogy of Pat Buchanan, Pat Robertson, Jesse Helms and especially Ronald Reagan. To the left, he skewers political correctness, Afro-centrism, and academic obsessions with theory. PC censoriousness and "family-values" rhetoric, he argues, are only two sides of the same character, extrusions of America's puritan heritage into the present--and, at root, signs of America's difficulty in seeing past the end of the Us-versus-Them mentality implanted by four decades of the Cold War. This book is fired by a deep concern, but it is not a relentless diatribe. While the author lambastes some aspects of American politics and denounces political correctness, he offers a heartfelt defense of non-ideological multiculturalism as an antidote to Americans' difficulty in imagining the rest of the world--and other Americans

Table Of Contents

Lecture 1. Culture and the Broken Polity -- Lecture 2. Multi-Culti and Its Discontents -- Lecture 3. Moral in Itself: Art and the Therapeutic Fallacy

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