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American Paradise
Hidden Ironies, Contradictions, Illusions, and Delusions, Paradoxes, Dilemmas, and Absurdities in American Life
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2012
Summary
The way we live, work, and die-alone and with other Americans-have so many hidden layers that we might as well say that there are two Americas: one we think we know and the other virtually unknown to us. Such a thought is compelling enough to motivate a sociologist to start writing down what he thinks about the hidden America. Then, what emerges from this effort is a picture of America that is at once so familiar and so alien. It is the alien part of America that troubles us, that scares us, and that pushes us to escape into louder, more colorful, and more pleasant unreality. As our escapism becomes more urgent each day, so does its testimony to the emptiness and loneliness of our solitary existence. Huer discusses this alien part of America in American Paradise.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-5185-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-5186-8
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
209
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Table of Contents No access
Introduction. Welcome to American Paradise No access
Chapter 1: The Great American Temptation No access Pages 1 - 8
Chapter 2: The Axis of Evil Temptation No access Pages 9 - 14
Chapter 3: Merchants of Death No access Pages 15 - 24
Chapter 4: Paradise Up Close No access Pages 25 - 32
Chapter 5: What America Has Become No access Pages 33 - 46
Chapter 6: Life, Liberty, and Happiness No access Pages 47 - 56
Chapter 7: Freedom's Progress No access Pages 57 - 68
Chapter 8: The Incredibly Shrinking Nation No access Pages 69 - 74
Chapter 9: Lifestyle and Other Oddities No access Pages 75 - 90
Chapter 10: Individualism and Supreme Justice No access Pages 91 - 98
Chapter 11: The Americanization of Love No access Pages 99 - 108
Chapter 12: Paradise Found No access Pages 109 - 116
Chapter 13: The Perfect State No access Pages 117 - 126
Chapter 14: A Phantom Nation No access Pages 127 - 140
Chapter 15: Weapons of Mass Distraction No access Pages 141 - 152
Chapter 16: All That Glitters No access Pages 153 - 162
Chapter 17: More Economic Oddities No access Pages 163 - 172
Chapter 18: What Could Have Been No access Pages 173 - 178
Chapter 19: Paradise Lost, Again No access Pages 179 - 188
Chapter 20: Living and Dying by the Sword No access Pages 189 - 194
Bibliography No access Pages 195 - 196
Appendix: The American Waste Index No access Pages 197 - 204
