That Does It: Desperate Reflections on American Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761843931)

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That Does It: Desperate Reflections on American Culture

$48.95

That Does It: Desperate Reflections on American Culture

$48.95
Format: Paperback
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That Does It: Desperate Reflections on American Culture is an enfilade of critical attacks on the absurdities, stupidities, and crimes of present-day American life. It's targets are dumb-but-dangerous politicians, infantile-but-invasive preachers, saccharine-but-poisonous clichés, mindless entertainment, spineless media, and a national lifestyle marked by manic consumption and extravagant wastefulness, narcissistic complacency, pseudo-patriotism, and the idiotic worship of more idols than you could throw a verbal IED at. The book provides a handy checklist of ills, from the life threatening to the merely obnoxious, afflicting the American psyche and body politic, which it then proceeds to submerge in satirical acid. This probably doomed assault on American cluelessness is recommended to all readers who have recently found themselves snorting indignantly at the nonsense dripping out of TV sets, car radios, talk shows, cineplexes, and White House news briefings.

Author: Peter Heinegg
ISBN-10: 0761843930
ISBN-13: 9780761843931
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2008
Pages: 132
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d
By Peter Heinegg
By Peter Heinegg
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Peter Heinegg obtained his Ph. D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 1971. He is a professor of English at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. and is widely published as an essayist, translator, and book reviewer.

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