Only Super Power: Reflections On Strengh, Weakness, And Anti Americanism
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Paul Hollander
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Lanham, MD
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: Lexington Books
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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ix, 291 p.
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Code E.Book: 2915
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Index
CONTENTS NOTE
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The new anti-Americanism -- Anti-Americanism and a world-class hate crime -- Anti-Americanism: murderous and rhetorical -- The politics of envy -- Anti-Americanism and moral equivalence -- Our society and its celebrities -- Watching celebrities -- Michael Moore: new political celebrity -- SUVs and Americans -- The chronic ailments of television news -- Stereotyping and the decline of common sense -- Tawana Brawley and the "exotic dancer" at Duke -- An Islamic requirement on campus -- Rehabilitating the great books: literature and life -- The counterculture of the heart -- Old and busier than ever -- American travelers to the Soviet Union -- Alexander Yakovlev -- Violence of higher purpose -- The North Korean gulag -- Admiring North Korea -- The fiftieth anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution -- Crossing the moral threshold: the rejection of communist systems in Eastern Europe -- Ambivalent in Amsterdam -- Travel in the Peloponnesos -- The resilience of the adversary culture -- The Chomsky phenomenon -- The banality of evil and the political culture of hatred -- The left and the Palestinians -- The personal and the political in Lessing's fiction -- Haven in Cuba -- Demystifying Marxism -- Public intellectuals and the God that failed -- From a "builder of socialism" to "free-floating intellectual": my politically incorrect career in sociology.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Political culture -- United States.
Anti-Americanism
فرهنگ سیاسی -- ایالات متحده
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States -- Civilization -- 21st century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.