Record ID | marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part35.utf8:128590434:2492 |
Source | Library of Congress |
Download Link | /show-records/marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part35.utf8:128590434:2492?format=raw |
LEADER: 02492cam a2200325 a 4500
001 2008029077
003 DLC
005 20100910082732.0
008 080709s2009 mdu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008029077
020 $a9780739125434 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0739125435 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780739131336 (electronic)
020 $a0739131338 (electronic)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn233813727
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDXCP$dBTCTA$dC#P$dBWX$dCDX$dIXA$dVVC$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aE169.12$b.H637 2009
082 00 $a973.931$222
100 1 $aHollander, Paul,$d1932-
245 14 $aThe only superpower :$breflections on strength, weakness, and anti-Americanism /$cPaul Hollander.
260 $aLanham, MD :$bLexington Books,$cc2009.
300 $aix, 291 p. ;$c24 cm.
505 0 $aThe 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
651 0 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y21st century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y21st century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRelations.
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAnti-Americanism.