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Synopsis
Addressed to compassionate readers who feel traumatized by the news & suffer election-year blues. Identifies our national dependency on the "quick fix" habit -- that of electing politicians who promise pain-free solutions & then wait for miracles. Genuine relief depends on thoughtful citizens reviewing assumptions about how we do business, raise children, respond to threats, educate ourselves, & treat our poor. She urges the politically depressed to shed our innocence about how our political, military, business, family, & religious practices have compromised national life, & draw inspiration from the social justice movements of our past.
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Review
In this unusual memoir, author Mary Kay Blakely finds herself no longer capable of overlooking the cruelty and violence of modern political life. Having lost faith in government, having found herself unable to get near a newstand without weeping, she escapes to rural Michigan to contemplate her own anomie--and that of her country. Blakely decides that "political depression" consists of the inability to distance oneself from the news--and considers that it might be an approaching epidemic. Well-researched, well-written, and frighteningly topical, this account may strike a chord with many modern readers.
About the Author
Mary Kay Blakely has been on the faculty of Indiana University/Purdue University in Port Wayne and the New School for Social Research in New York City.
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- PublisherDiane Pub Co
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0788166190
- ISBN 13 9780788166198
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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