The Strange Death of Liberal America.The Strange Death of Liberal America Ralph Brauer Praeger Publishers 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 027599063X $49.95 www.praeger.com Award-winning writer Ralph Brauer presents "The Strange Death of Liberal America", a fascinating examination of how American attitudes shifted sharply to the political right in recent times. Part modern political history, part lamentation lamentation, n a prayer expressing affliction or sorrow and requesting defense, retribution, or comfort. for the abandonment of the liberal ideal in which "government exists to keep the playing field level", part cautionary tale of the social ills promoted by policies that increasingly favor the rich, the powerful, and the corporations over struggling ordinary citizens, "The Strange Death of Liberal America" is fascinating and slightly unnerving un·nerve tr.v. un·nerved, un·nerv·ing, un·nerves 1. To deprive of fortitude, strength, or firmness of purpose. 2. To make nervous or upset. in its grim survey of the past and dark predictions for the future. From suburban obsession with minutia mi·nu·ti·a n. pl. mi·nu·ti·ae A small or trivial detail: "the minutiae of experimental and mathematical procedure" Frederick Turner. rather than the broad picture, to subtle rollbacks in civil rights, to the drumbeat See Drumbeat 2000. of fear that the so-called Counterrevolution coun·ter·rev·o·lu·tion n. 1. A revolution whose aim is the deposition and reversal of a political or social system set up by a previous revolution. 2. A movement to oppose revolutionary tendencies and developments. plays to scare voters into falling in line with its social agenda, "The Strange Death of Liberal America" exposes all in no-nonsense, clear and charged language. |
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