Sociologist Etzioni, now of George Washington U., was Carter's reindustrialization guru, and his plan for national salvation is reminiscently preoccupied with the cultural decay manifest in egocentrism and ""me-ism."" In this, he also accords with Moral Majority adherents;but he dissents from their primitivist and authoritarian solutions. To rebuild the decayed ""infrastructure"" necessary for a second economic take-off--the transportation, education, and energy systems--we will have to create institutions that foster ""mutuality"" and ""civility"" (i.e., a sense of the common good). Rather than leaving children to ""work through"" their ego-centered character formation, schools will have to engage in personality-shaping. (Etzioni's suggestions: more resources directed toward the lower levels of education; more work/study programs for teenagers.) Within the family, mutuality and civility can be engendered by ""basic parenting,"" which doesn't amount to much more than common sense. (This is the kind of tract in which people do not converse or discuss, they ""dialogue."" Sometimes they even ""megalogue."") Another predictable concern is consumerism, enemy of the deferred gratification requisite for reindustrialization; still another, the proliferation of social-service ""entitlements."" And piety is heaped upon piety as Etzioni writes that management should recognize the human needs of workers, while simultaneously deferring the ""quality of life society"" until after reindustrialization has been accomplished.

An immodest agenda: Rebuilding America before the twenty-first century

Etzioni, Amitai

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The War Against the Amazons

Politics & Social Sciences

Kleinbaum, Abby Wettan

Social Sciences

Development Without Aid: Growth, Poverty, and Government

Business & Money

Krauss, Melvyn B.

International

Globalization And Its Discontents

Sassen, Saskia

Economics

My Father's War

ADRIAAN VAN DIS

These 26 essays range over the history of working men and women between the late18th century and the present day. They include Hobsbawm's pioneering studies in labour history and social protest - the formation of the British workin class, labour custom and traditions, the political radicalism of 19th century shoemakers, male and female images in revolutionary movements, the machine-breakers, revolution and sex, peasants and politics, the rules of violence, the common-sense of Tom Paine. There are more recent reflections: on the May Day holiday; the Vietnam War; socialism and the avantgarde; Mario Puzo, the Mafia and the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Guiliano; and the cultural consequences of Christopher Columbus. There are tributes to some of jazz's legendary figures - Count Basie, SidneyBechet and Dike Ellington - anf the tragic blues-singer Billie Holiday.

Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz

HOBSBAWM, Eric

Stranger in a Strange Land

Literature & Fiction

Classics

The Romantics: England in a Revolutionary Age

The last of three volumes of E.P. Thompson's work to be published posthumously continues the author's examination of the turbulent 1790s through literary works of the time. Thompson traces the intellectual influences & societal pressures that gave rise to the English Romantic movement including the French Revolution. A fitting close to an extraordinary career.Education or experienceDisenchantment or default? A lay sermonWordsworth's crisisBenevolent Mr. GodwinSamuel Taylor ColeridgeThe poet & his editorsHunting the Jacobin fox

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

THOMPSON, E.P.

Mystery

A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom (New Press People's History)

History

David. Williams

Americas

"Tenaciously expos[es] the role guns play for many Americans in their national and political identity." -Publishers Weekly On progressive websites and in newspaper columns Gun Show Nation has become part of a lively debate on guns and democracy in America. "Burbick gets it," Buzzflash says, "she cuts through to the heart of the psychology of guns." Cultural historian, critic, and gun owner Joan Burbick examines the lethal politics of gun ownership, answering that perennial question about America culture: Why are Americans so obsessed with guns? Looking at the nation from the floor of a gun show, Burbick uncovers a powerful conservative ideology that attempts to place gun ownership at the center of our democracy. "Careful in her conclusions, lively in her writing" (Booklist), her analysis takes us from the history of the NRA, through the gun lobby's engagement with domestic politics that reached its high-water mark during the Reagan era, to the movement's contemporary hostility to the United Nations. The most thorough account yet of the beliefs that millions of ordinary Americans hold about guns, Gun Show Nation delves into the political machinations that have shaped the gun debate in America and draws fascinating conclusions about gun culture and national identity.

Gun Show Nation: Gun Culture and American Democracy

Burbick, Joan

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