God, guns, gold and glory : American character and its discontents / / by Lauren Langman, George Lundskow.
America, beginning as a small group of devout Puritan settlers, ultimately became the richest, most powerful Empire in the history of the world, but having reached that point, is now in a process of implosion and decay. This book, inspired by Frankfurt School Critical Theory, especially Erich Fromm,...
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