The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America - Softcover

Nisbet, Robert

 
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The Present Age challenges readers to reexamine the role of the United States in the world since World War I. Nisbet criticizes Americans for isolationism at home and discusses the gutting of educational standards, the decay of education, the presence of government in all facets of life, the diminished connection to community, and the prominence of economic arrangements driving everyday life in America.

Robert Nisbet (19131996) taught at Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley, Smith College, and the University of Bologna.

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Robert Nisbet (1913-1996) was renowned worldwide for his scholarship in the history and philosophy of social and political thought. He taught at Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley, Smith College, and the University of Bologna.

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ISBN 10:  0060159022 ISBN 13:  9780060159023
Verlag: Harpercollins, 1988
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