The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America - Softcover

Nisbet, Robert

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9780060915780: The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America

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ISBN 10: 0060915781 ISBN 13: 9780060915780

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1989

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

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Robert Nisbet (1913-1996) was renowned worldwide for his scholarship in the history and philosophy of social and political thought. He taught at Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley, Smith College, and the University of Bologna.

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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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