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050 00 $aE169.12$b.A724 2003
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100 1 $aArden, John Boghosian.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87825497
245 10 $aAmerica's meltdown :$bthe lowest-common-denominator society /$cJohn Boghosian Arden.
260 $aWestport, Conn. :$bPraeger Publishers,$c2003.
300 $avi, 234 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [213]-230) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Meltdown -- $g2.$tCyberspaced -- $g3.$tVicarious Living -- $g4.$tInfotainment -- $g5.$tRetail Government -- $g6.$tLock and Load -- $g7.$tThe Bottom of the Barrel -- $g8.$tShopping and Dropping -- $g9.$tMen and Women Are from Earth -- $g10.$tHyped Sports -- $g11.$tWaging the Soul -- $g12.$tPunching the Clock -- $g13.$tMcMedicine -- $g14.$tShrink Wrap -- $g15.$tDumbsizing the Schools -- $g16.$tMall Art -- $g17.$tThe Spiritual Supermarket -- $g18.$tRebuilding the Future.
520 1 $a"This book examines contemporary American consciousness, considering the factors that have driven society toward gossip and sensationalism at the cost of substance and depth.".
520 8 $a"Arden discusses the growing epidemic of acrimony, superficiality, attention deficit disorder, and complaints of ennui. He targets the reasons why American children have expressed their confused rage with deadly weapons, why a president boasts that he earned C's in college, and why society has drifted into craving entertainment laced with violence and cheap thrills.
520 8 $aThe book is provocative reading for concerned citizens, as well as for scholars and researchers involved with contemporary American culture and society."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y1970-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139948
650 0 $aPopular culture$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140482
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1980-2020.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140524
650 0 $aMass media$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107508
650 0 $aSocial psychology$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010112125
852 00 $bleh$hE169.12$i.A724 2003
852 00 $bbar$hE169.12$i.A724 2003