The Cracked Bell: America and the Afflictions of Liberty - Softcover

Riley-Smith, Tristram

 
9781849011044: The Cracked Bell: America and the Afflictions of Liberty
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1849011044 ISBN 13: 9781849011044
Verlag: Constable, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

In this groundbreaking book, Tristram Riley-Smith charts the cultural landscape of a conflicted America in the opening decade of the 21st Century and addresses two key questions:

Why is it that a nation that is so clear about its destiny leaves the world confused about its direction of travel; and why is it that a people intent on the pursuit of happiness appears so unsettled?

Delving beneath the chaotic surface of American society, Riley-Smith exposes the enduring fault-lines in the cultural bedrock. In doing so, he offers up a panoramic snapshot of American society, flash-lit by the thunderbolts of '9/11', Hurricane Katrina, the 2008 Credit Crash and the inauguration of President Obama.

The Cracked Bell gets to the heart of what it means to live in Obama's America, addressing questions of identity and power, belief and value, liberty and law, innovation and tradition, commerce and consumption, nature and civilization, war and peace.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tristram Riley-Smith worked as a journalist before taking a PhD in social anthropology at Cambridge University. He spent three years working in the British Embassy in Washington DC. He has since lectured on the anthropology of art at the Smithsonian Institution and contributed to A Dictionary of Classical Reference in English Poetry, Travellers' Dictionary of Quotations and Macmillan's Encyclopaedia of Art. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is married with three sons.

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Verlag
Constable
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1849011044
ISBN 13 
9781849011044
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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