TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hughes,Robert
TI  - Culture of complaint: the fraying of America 
SN  - 0195076761
AV  - NX180.S6 H85 1993
U1  - 700.1030973 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - United States
N1  - Based on a series of lectures; Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210); Introduction --; Lecture 1; Culture and the Broken Polity --; Lecture 2; Multi-Culti and Its Discontents --; Lecture 3; Moral in Itself: Art and the Therapeutic Fallacy --; Notes
N2  - 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
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