Dalrymple, Theodore, <br/><br/>
Our culture, what's left of it :  the mandarins and the masses / 
Theodore Dalrymple. 
 - xi, 341 pages ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/> "Most of the contents of this book first appeared in City journal, published by The Manhattan Institute"--T.p. verso.  Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Arts and letters. The frivolity of evil ; A taste for danger ; Why Shakespeare is for all time ; Sex and the Shakespeare reader ; What's wrong with twinkling buttocks? ; The rage of Virginia Woolf ; How--and how not--to love mankind ; A neglected genius ; The dystopian imagination ; A lost art ; Gillray's ungloomy morality ; Trash, violence, and Versace: but is it art? -- Society and politics. What we have to lose ; How to read a society ; Why Havana had to die ; The uses of corruption ; The goddess of domestic tribulations ; The starving criminal ; Don't legalize drugs ; All sex, all the time ; Who killed childhood? ; A horror story ; The man who predicted the race riots ; When Islam breaks down ; The barbarians at the gates of Paris ; After empire. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1566636434 9781566636438 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004027150 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Dalrymple, Theodore.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Culture--Philosophy<br/>Social problems.<br/>Civilization, Modern<br/>Physicians--Great Britain<br/>Prison physicians--Great Britain
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Great Britain--Civilization--1945-
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM621  / .D35 2005 R489.D357  / A3 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>610.92