The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America

Nisbet, Robert

ISBN 10: 0060159022 / ISBN 13: 9780060159023

Published by Harpercollins, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America
• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060159022
• ISBN 13: 9780060159023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 453.592 grams

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Synopsis

Reviews America's role in the world, focusing on a police-action foreign policy, an obsession with consumerism, and ever-rising personal debt

Reviews

Nisbet, noted sociologist and conservative, argues that a revolution of ideas is needed in America. He deplores the country's moralizing international interventionism that Woodrow Wilsom made popular, because it has resulted in a "prevalence of war." He also criticizes the growth of the federal bureaucracy, which he regards as more absolutist than the divine-right monarchies. Nisbet blames the influence of Rousseau and disregard of Tocqueville for the centralization of power and attendant egalitarianism that he feels presently threaten individual liberty. He is further alarmed about the rampant greed and consumerism that he observes followed World War I. Though much of this is an update of ideas Nisbet has presented in previous works, it is recommended for public and academic libraries. David Steiniche, Missouri Western State Coll., St. Joseph
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