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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen Bertman |
| ISBN: | 027596230X 9780275962302 |
| OCLC Number: | 42021557 |
| Description: | 176 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Prologue: The Land of the Lotus-eaters -- Cultural Amnesia -- Memory and Personal Identity -- Memory and Civilization -- The Power of Oblivion -- Why America Forgot -- National Therapy -- Home Remedies -- A Nation of Amnesiacs -- Epilogue: Return to Ithaca. |
| Responsibility: | Stephen Bertman. |
Abstract:
"Applying the metaphor of Alzheimer's disease to our national state of mind, Bertman offers a chilling prognosis for our country's future unless radical steps for recovery are taken. ... [He] looks beyond the classroom to the larger social forces that conspire to alienate Americans from their past: a materialistic creed that celebrates transience and disposability, and an electronic faith that worships the present to the exclusion of all other dimensions of time."--Jacket.
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