ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: ddd
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

The American Condition - Edmund Fawcett, Tony Thomas
engleski jezik
tvrd povez,omot
udzbenički format
485 strana
1982g
Omot malo iskrzan, očuvana ocena 4

The United States still has the capacity to bewilder Englishmen. Edmund Fawcett and Tony Thomas soberly report this in their pleasant and stimulating new portrait of American society. Now that the United States has joined Britain in the ranks of nations past their peak--at least in Mr. Fawcett and Mr. Thomas`s view--British Americaphilia takes on an elegiac tone. It is not the authors` intention to present themselves as foreign observers, and it is a little unfair to place them neatly in that category. Each chapter is energetically reported; the writing style smoothly synthesizes a wide range of information. Their theory is that America has become `a mature country, a mature economy, a mature society` whose people are `heirs--more than pioneers.` They see our major institutions as established, our position in the world as no longer dominant, the days of exuberant growth ended, and our problems increasingly those of maintenance (providing for an aging populace, cooling class resentments, repairing the roadbeds) rather than of progress. This is a propitious moment to offer up an America whose myths need retooling. Certainly, persuasive factual evidence can be marshaled -- and the authors marshal it -- to support that view. But at the level of belief, seeing the United States as a country whose deep yearnings are still in the old and mysterious forward gears continues to seem accurate.