The Liberal Crack-Up
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
Sold by Coffee Cat Books, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.
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Add to basketSold by Coffee Cat Books, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since September 15, 2021
Condition: Used - Good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFirst print. Simon & Schuster, 1984. Name & info of previous owner on front endpaper. Additional pages clean and unmarked. Hardcover. Dust jacket clean and bright, VG, shows bit of edge and shelf wear from normal use, storage. No rips, tears or stains. Cover Boards and Binding solid, square. Ships quickly and with care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: The Liberal Crack-Up by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., a nationally syndicated columnist and editor of the American Spectator, offers an outrageous account of 'New Age Liberalism.' Tyrrell exposes the cheap thought and affronts to common sense that have caused American liberalism to disintegrate into a riot of outlandish enthusiasms over the past two decades. He has 'journeyed into the fever swamps of American politics and come back with the bugs' the public nuisances who have been conducting a 'running argument with life as it is led by normal Americans.' The book unpacks everything from feminists with 'fevered brows' to Whole Earth catastrophists, critically examining the Credo of Wholesome Progress and the Dictatorship of the Idiot Smile. The Liberal Crack-Up is a freewheeling criticism of ideas, a sustained snicker at modern times, and a Menckenesque chronicle of melancholia and moral goose-stepping. Praised by Tom Wolfe as 'the funniest political essayist to come along in years,' Tyrrell delivers a rich and provocative examination of the 'noisiest public philosophy ever heard of.
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