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The politically incorrect guide to western civilization / Anthony Esolen.
Penn Museum Library CB245 .E695 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Esolen, Anthony M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Western.
- Political correctness.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 340 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Regnery Pub., [2008]
- Summary:
- Christianity. Judaism. Dead white males. Old-fashioned morality. The traditional family. Tradition itself. Everything the liberals hate can be summed up in two words: Western civilization. Here is the ultimate Politically Incorrect Guide: a sprightly, informative summary of the original source of all things politically incorrect from Moses, Caesar, and Christ, to Dante, Thomas More, and the Founding Fathers.
- Contents:
- Ancient Greece : love of wisdom and beauty
- Rome : an empire of tradition and patriarchy
- Israel : how God changed the world
- The early church : charity and tolerance are born
- The high Middle Ages : the bright ages
- The Renaissance : it's not what you think
- The Enlightenment : liberty and tyranny
- The nineteenth century : man is a god; man is a beast
- The twentieth century : a century of blood.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-327) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781596980594
- 1596980591
- OCLC:
- 227570264
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