Don't Think, Smile!: Notes on a Decade of Denial - Couverture souple

Willis, Ellen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807043214 ISBN 13 : 9780807043219

Editeur : Beacon Press, 2000

Synopsis

If the 1970s were the "Me Decade," and the '80s were the years of the Reagan counterrevolution, then the '90s, writes Ellen Willis, were the Decade of Denial. In keeping with the mass media's glib assumption that a phenomenal increase in wealth for a minority meant genuine national prosperity, the 1990s saw an astounding refusal, on both the left and right, to question received wisdom or engage in substantive deliberation. Turning her acute eye to the decade's defining moments-imbroglios like those surrounding the O. J. Simpson trial, The Bell Curve, Monica-gate, and the Million Man March-Ellen Willis reveals the mindlessness behind the noise. Arguing that we suffer from a lack of true freedom, she demands that we radically rethink our country and ourselves to create a society in which we can fully enjoy life.

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À propos de l?auteur

Formerly a staff writer for The New Yorker and <i/>The Village Voice, Ellen Willis is director of the cultural reporting and criticism program in the department of journalism at New York University. She is the author of Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock & Roll and No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Beacon Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807043214
• ISBN 13: 9780807043219
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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