Age of Folly: America Abandons Its Democracy

"In twenty-five years of imperial adventure, [Lapham believes that] America has laid waste to its principles of democracy. The ... march of folly steps off at the end of the Cold War, in an era when delusions of omnipotence allowed the market to climb to virtual heights, while society was divided between the selfish and frightened rich and the increasingly debt-ridden and angry poor. The new millennium saw the democratic election of an American president nullified by the Supreme Court, and the pretender launching a wasteful, vainglorious, and never-ending war on terror, doomed to end in defeat and the loss of America's prestige abroad. All this culminates in the sunset swamp of the 2016 election"--

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Published: 10/10/2017
ISBN: 9781786630445
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.10d