The Decline and Fall of the American Empire: Corruption, Decadence, and the American Dream - Softcover

Bouza, Anthony V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306454076 ISBN 13: 9780306454073

Publisher: Springer, 1996

Synopsis

No segment of American society is spared from Bouza's critical gaze in exposing the systemic excesses that are poisoning the heart of our nation. He spotlights the white-collar criminals, who quietly take pennies from each of us to create their own pots of gold. He unmasks the politicians, on both ends of the political spectrum, whose arrogance and hypocrisy speak volumes. He demonstrates how organized crime, while catering to our sinful, illicit cravings, affects our daily lives from buying a fresh dinner to building a house. He uncloaks the televalgelists and other fraudulent religious leaders who have transformed the ministry from a shepherd's leading the flock into a huckster's fleecing the gullible. Moreover, he reveals the abuses that have permeated the medical and other ”helping” professions.

About this title

About the Author:

Chief Anthony V. Bouza is a 40-year veteran of the police. He is a retired Chief of Police in Minneapolis, a former Commander of Police in the Bronx, and the author of How to Stop Crime, The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, and Police Unbound. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife.

From Publishers Weekly:

In a slashing jeremiad, Bouza (The Police Mystique) presents a hard-hitting analysis of the moral rot that sustains political and institutional corruption, greed, crime, hedonism, racism?forces that he says threaten to destroy the fabric of American society. A police reformer who has headed the NYPD's Bronx division and the Minneapolis Police Department, he looks unflinchingly at the Mafia's stranglehold on several industries; urges that drug enforcement efforts focus on top-level operators rather than on street criminals; and outlines a tough program to combat domestic terrorism. Examining the savings-and-loan scandal, white-collar crimes, Wall Street profiteering and venal politicians, Bouza calls for corporate democracy, a vigilant, muckraking media, tighter government regulations to ensure fiscal integrity and rewarding of whistle-blowers. With crusading zeal and a scattershot approach, he links the decline in values to mind-numbing TV and video game violence, exploitative religious cults and money-hungry televangelists, rappers' misogynist lyrics, a welfare system that fails to demand recipient accountability and a popular culture that exalts sports and entertainment heroes but discards teachers and sages. His call for moral renewal is buttressed by practical strategies.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0306454076
• ISBN 13: 9780306454073
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338