The American condition / Edmund Fawcett and Tony Thomas.
Insights, analysis, and overview of modern American government and society by two somewhat outsiders, Britons Fawcett and Thomas.
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New York :
Harper & Row,
c1982.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a maturing nation
- A Rich and varied sameness: regions and people
- Living off capital: business and the economy
- Women at odds: the sexes and the family
- Democracy and its discontents: politics and government
- Limping donkeys, lumbering elephants: Democrats and Republicans
- Looking before they leap: finance
- Your town: cities and architecture
- The Fat of the land: farms and farming
- Tomorrow's Americans: schools
- The knowledge-industrial complex: universities and the arts
- Rule of lawyers: the legal system
- Soft soap and hard news: television and the Press
- Games Americans play: sports
- In God we trust: religions
- One eye on the mirror: self-improvement, health, and psychiatry.