Is America Breaking Apart? / / John A. Hall, Charles Lindholm.
Is the United States a nation of materialistic loners whose politics are dictated by ethnic, racial, religious, or sexual identities? This is what America has become in the eyes of many commentators. Americans seem to fear that their society is breaking apart, but how accurate is this portrayal and...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE The growth of political stability
- 1 The state and the people
- 2 The national question
- 3 The challenge of class
- 4 The world in America, America in the world
- 5 Reprise
- PART TWO Sociability in America
- 6 Conceptual baselines
- 7 Sacred values
- 8 Anti-politics in America
- 9 Ambivalence about association
- 10 Ethnicity as choice, race as destiny
- 11 Two cheers for homogeneity
- Conclusion
- Index