America's meltdown : the lowest-common-denominator society / John Boghosian Arden.

By:

Arden, John Boghosian [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003Description: vi, 234 pages ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0275976394
9780275976392

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

973.92 21

LOC classification:

E169.12 .A724 2003

Contents:

1. The Meltdown -- 2. Cyberspaced -- 3. Vicarious Living -- 4. Infotainment -- 5. Retail Government -- 6. Lock and Load -- 7. The Bottom of the Barrel -- 8. Shopping and Dropping -- 9. Men and Women Are from Earth -- 10. Hyped Sports -- 11. Waging the Soul -- 12. Punching the Clock -- 13. McMedicine -- 14. Shrink Wrap -- 15. Dumbsizing the Schools -- 16. Mall Art -- 17. The Spiritual Supermarket -- 18. Rebuilding the Future.

Review: "This book examines contemporary American consciousness, considering the factors that have driven society toward gossip and sensationalism at the cost of substance and depth." "Arden discusses the growing epidemic of acrimony, superficiality, attention deficit disorder, and complaints of ennui. He targets the reasons why American children have expressed their confused rage with deadly weapons, why a president boasts that he earned C's in college, and why society has drifted into craving entertainment laced with violence and cheap thrills. The book is provocative reading for concerned citizens, as well as for scholars and researchers involved with contemporary American culture and society."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	973.92 ARD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A259147B

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-230) and index.

"This book examines contemporary American consciousness, considering the factors that have driven society toward gossip and sensationalism at the cost of substance and depth." "Arden discusses the growing epidemic of acrimony, superficiality, attention deficit disorder, and complaints of ennui. He targets the reasons why American children have expressed their confused rage with deadly weapons, why a president boasts that he earned C's in college, and why society has drifted into craving entertainment laced with violence and cheap thrills. The book is provocative reading for concerned citizens, as well as for scholars and researchers involved with contemporary American culture and society."--BOOK JACKET.

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