One Nation, Two Cultures A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Rev Olution

Name: One Nation, Two Cultures A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Rev Olution
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ISBN: 9780375704109

ISBN-10: 0375704108

ISBN-13: 9780375704109

Edition: 2001

Authors: Gertrude Himmelfarb

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From one of today's most respected historians and cultural critics comes a new book examining the gulf in American society--a division that cuts across class, racial, ethnic, political and sexual lines. One side originated in the tradition of republican virtue, the other in the counterculture of the late 1960s. Himmelfarb argues that, while the latter generated the dominant culture of today-particularly in universities, journalism, television, and film--a "dissident culture" continues to promote the values of family, a civil society, sexual morality, privacy, and patriotism. Proposing democratic remedies for our moral and cultural diseases, Himmelfarb concludes that it is a tribute to…

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List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.22" wide x 7.90" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Don E. Eberly is the director of the Civil Society Project, a national initiative advancing ideas to strengthen America's social institutions and community life. He is the editor of many books, including "The Content of America's Character: The Recovery of Civic Virtue". Eberly is an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values, and founder of the National Fatherhood Initiative. He lives in Lancaster, PA.



Preface



A Historical Prologue: the "Vices of Levity" and the "Diseases of Democracy"



Civil Society "the Seedbeds of Virtue"



The Family: "A Miniature Social System"



The Law and Polity: "Legislating Morality"



Religion: "The First of Their Political Institutions"



The Two Cultures: "An Ethics Gap"


Epilogue: Some Modest Predictions


Afterword to the Vintage Edition


Notes


Index