Age of folly America abandons its democracy
"America's leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terror. In twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles of democracy. The self-glorifying march of folly steps off at the end of the Cold War, in an era when delu...
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London ; New York :
Verso,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Folly
- Democracy in America?
- Brave new world
- Who and what is American?
- Versailles on the Potomac
- Show and tell
- Reactionary chic
- Lights, camera, democracy!
- The dimpled chad
- Civics lesson
- Bolt from the blue
- Res publica
- American jihad
- Mythography
- Spoils of war
- Road to Babylon
- Hail Caesar!
- Light in the window
- Cause for dissent
- Shock and awe
- The demonstration effect
- Dar al-Harb
- Propaganda mill
- Condottieri
- On message
- Lionhearts
- Blowing bubbles
- Estate sale
- Elegy for a rubber stamp
- In broad daylight
- Achievetrons
- Bombast bursting in air
- Part 2. Folly's antidote
- Democracy 101
- Crowd control
- Pennies from heaven
- Open to inspection
- The world in time.
