Over Here is a selection of witty and well written essays on American subjects from the late 1960s to the end of the 1980s. Beginning with close, skeptical readings of the terms in which life in contemporary America has been represented and explained, the book offers longer views of the difficult issues of America's recent past--Vietnam, sexual and social revolution, the drug scene, the career of Richard Nixon, political terrorism and the Cold War, the oil crises, Reaganism and the Roaring Eighties on Wall Street, the whole ...
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Over Here is a selection of witty and well written essays on American subjects from the late 1960s to the end of the 1980s. Beginning with close, skeptical readings of the terms in which life in contemporary America has been represented and explained, the book offers longer views of the difficult issues of America's recent past--Vietnam, sexual and social revolution, the drug scene, the career of Richard Nixon, political terrorism and the Cold War, the oil crises, Reaganism and the Roaring Eighties on Wall Street, the whole sad comedy of an American imperium that keeps betraying the democratic intentions it purports to serve. Yet in "criticizing America," Over Here asserts the value as well as the difficulty of being where and what we are.
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