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Warten auf die Barbaren von Lapman, Lewis H.; Lapham, Lewis
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Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
1859848826
ISBN-13
9781859848821
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284825
Product Key Features
Book Title
Waiting for the Barbarians
Number of Pages
230 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Popular Culture, American Government / General, Essays
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Literary Collections
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
20 oz
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
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Trade
LCCN
97-045921
Dewey Edition
21
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"Edward Said's anger against injustice must become ours, and his pen that challenged the sword must become our weapon in the battle for human values."-Elias Khoury
Dewey Decimal
973.929
Synopsis
After two centuries of experiment with the theories of the Enlightenment and the volatile substances of democracy, America's leading citizens have come to believe that they have safely arrived at the end of history. Substituting the wonder of money for the work of politics, (a dirty business best left to the hired help), the owners of the nation's capital take comfort in the rising Dow Jones average (up 2,500 points in the last three years) and complacently assume that the engines of immortal oligarchy require little else except the chores of routine maintenance. Unhappily, the political servants of the corporate state find it increasingly difficult to keep their master's house in order. Both the Republican and Democratic parties find themselves adrift in scandal, discredited by their means of raising campaign money, suspected of crimes against the common good, convicted of neglecting the poor, despoiling the environment, raffling off the prospects of the country's long-term future for the promise of a short-term vote. Lewis Lapham received the 1995 National Magazine Award for his essay writing, in which the judges discovered "an exhilarating point of view in an age of conformity". With invective all the more deadly for its grace and wit, Lapham presents the portrait of a feckless American establishment gone large in the stomach and soft in the head. His acerbic remarks on the 1996 Presidential election take into account Steve Forbes' primary campaign, the non-candidacy of General Colin Powell, the comings and goings of Dick Morris, Senator Bob Dole's triumphant return to television as a pitchman for Air France, the building of Hilary Rodham Clinton's Potemkin village in Iowa, and the sublime vacuity of President Clinton's inaugural address. A previously unpublished and substantial concluding piece looks at the fate of indolent ruling classes through history. "Our American political classes, being themselves complicit in the well-financed banditry at large in the world, come and go talking of Hilary Clinton's astrologer and the sins of children's television, about the wickedness of the National Arts Endowment and Bill Clinton's Penis. Their insouciance unnerves me. The barbarism implicit in the restless energies of big-time, global capitalism requires some sort of check or balance, if not by a spiritual doctrine or impulse, then by a lively interest in (or practice of) democratic government. The collapse of communism at the end of the Cold War removed from the world's political stage the last pretense of a principled opposition to the rule of money, and the pages of history suggest that oligarchies unhindered by conscience or common sense seldom take much interest in the cause of civil liberty.", This work presents the portrait of a feckless American establishment gone large in the stomach and soft in the head. The author's acerbic remarks on the 1996 Presidential election takes into account the farce of Steve Forbes's primary campaign, the non-candidacy of General Colin Powell, the comings and goings of Dick Morris, Senator Robert Dole's triumphant return to television as a pitchman for Air France, the building of Hillary Rodham Clinton's Potemkin village in Iowa, and the sublime vacuity of President Clinton's inaugural address.
LC Classification Number
E885.L37 1997
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