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Item Details
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A FURIOUS HUNGER
AMERICA IN THE 21ST CENTURY |
| By: |
Bruce Grant |
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Paperback |
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£28.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0522847927 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780522847925 |
| Publisher: |
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
11 April, 1995 |
| Pages: |
264 |
| Description: |
A penetrating exploration of America's way of life - its people, its history, its rhetoric, its government and politics, and its arts and popular culture. The author's intention is to try to understand the United States better, not as the leader of the Western world, but as itself. |
| Synopsis: |
At the end of the twentieth century, the United States-the most powerful nation on earth-is driven by quasi-religious patriotism and by conspicuous materialism. At once restless and violent, creative and democratic, it is also, at another level, deeply unsure of itself. Bruce Grant s engrossing text reveals the core of America s greatness-and its vulnerability. Americans believe that their country is blessed and exceptional-blessed by God and nature, exceptional because of their management of the twin icons, democracy and capitalism. But have Americans separated themselves too much from the rest of the world? Can they meet the challenge of the 21st century, which is to provide true global leadership? A Furious Hunger is a penetrating exploration of America s way of life, its people, its history, its rhetoric, its government and politics, and its arts and popular culture. The author s modest intention is to try to understand the United States better, not as the leader of the Western world, but as itself. Bruce Grant writes critically and sympathetically of the country and the people he has visited and observed for over thirty years. T |
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Australia |
| Imprint: |
Melbourne University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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