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1 online resource (xxxiv, 147 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Recent developments have made many social scientists and commentators wonder whether the United States is still a relatively modern, secular, and democratic society. Instead, America shows signs of the cultural despair that preceded the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany. Taking a careful look at such critical moments as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Depression, the assassination of President Lincoln, and the eves both of the Civil War and of the American Revolution, this book shows that Americans have long shown authoritarian and even fascist tendencies: signs of despair that the nati. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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United States -- Social conditions.
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United States. |
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Social conditions. |
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United States -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Authoritarianism -- United States.
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Authoritarianism. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fenn, Richard K. American culture of despair. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 9781527503090 (OCoLC)1005890500 |
| ISBN |
9781527503090 (electronic book) |
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1527503097 (electronic book) |
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1527503097 |
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