Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin-de-Siècle
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- Synopsis
- Lapham's observations speak to the moral and intellectual confusions visited upon the American ruling elites - in the media and the universities as well as in business and government during the years 1989-1995. Drawn across a broad canvas of incidental and scene. Lapham's sketches take as their occasions events as different from one another as the wars in Panama and the Persian Gulf, the apotheosis of Richard Nixon and the transfiguration of O. J. Simpson, the grim inspections of the American soul conducted by the agents of both the pious left (no smoking cigarettes, no dirty water in the swimming pools, condoms in the schools) and the zealous right (no serial murders in the movies, no lesbians in the army, prayer in the schools), the media's use of history as wallpaper and elevator music, the dwindling significance of President Clinton (vanishing as mysteriously as the Cheshire cat) and the bombastic arrival of Newt Gingrich ("a man for all grievances"), the practice of swindling the stockholders and the art of changing gossip into news.
- Copyright:
- 1995
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 371 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781859849521
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Date of Addition:
- 09/26/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Lewis H. Lapham
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- Submitted By:
- Daproim Africa
- Proofread By:
- Daproim Africa
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.