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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| Superior document: | Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 93 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016] |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Critical Social Sciences
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (394 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- God and His Chosen People: Act II
- America: Chasing the Pot of Gold
- Guns: Violence, Gender and American Character
- Glory: The Rise and Fall of American Exceptionalism
- The Sorrows of American Character
- 49 Shades of Social Character and One More on the Way
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.