The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War, and Our Call to Greatness by Hartmann, Betsy

The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War, and Our Call to Greatness (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781609807405)

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The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War, and Our Call to Greatness by Hartmann, Betsy

The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War, and Our Call to Greatness

$24.95
The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War, and Our Call to Greatness by Hartmann, Betsy

The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War, and Our Call to Greatness

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
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Has apocalyptic thinking contributed to some of our nation's biggest problems--inequality, permanent war, and the despoiling of our natural resources? From the Puritans to the present, historian and public policy advocate Betsy Hartmann sheds light on a pervasive but--until now--invisible theme shaping the American mindset: apocalyptic thinking, or the belief that the end of the world is nigh. Hartmann makes a compelling case that apocalyptic fears are deeply intertwined with the American ethos, to our detriment. In The America Syndrome, she seeks to reclaim human agency and, in so doing, revise the national narrative. By changing the way we think, we just might change the world.

Author: Betsy Hartmann
ISBN-10: 1609807405
ISBN-13: 9781609807405
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Language: English
Published: 05/23/2017
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/11/2017
By Betsy Hartmann
By Betsy Hartmann
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Writer, educator, and women's rights advocate BETSY HARTMANN's books and appearances have had an impact on national debates on population control, environmentalism, and national security. Now in its third edition, Hartmann's feminist classic, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control, tackles the powerful myth of overpopulation and its negative consequences for women's reproductive health and rights. She is the co-author of A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village and co-editor of the anthology Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties. Her political thrillers, The Truth About Fire and Deadly Election, explore the threat the Far Right poses to American democracy. Hartmann is professor emerita of Development Studies and senior policy analyst of the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College. She lives in western Massachusetts.

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