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Out of the ashes : rebuilding American culture / Anthony Esolen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Esolen, Anthony M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social problems--United States.
- Social problems.
- United States.
- Social values--United States.
- Social values.
- United States--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Moral conditions.
- Moral conditions.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 203 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Rebuilding American culture
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Regnery Publishing, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Blunt and prophetic, [the author] makes the case that the decay of Western civilization is alarmingly advanced. Our sickly, sub-pagan state resembles a bombed-out city. We have to assess the damage, but merely lamenting it does no good. There is work to be done."--Jacket flap.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the rubble
- Giving things their proper names : the restoration of truth-telling
- Except the Lord build the house : restoring a sense of beauty
- A mind is a terrible thing to baste : restoring the school
- Man by nature desires to know : rebuilding the college
- Repudiating the sexual revolution : restoring manhood
- Restoring womanhood : building homes, not houses
- Work while it is yet day : making good things again
- Playing upon the waters : bringing play back to life
- Idiots no more : recovering the polis
- Pilgrims, returning home.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1621575144
- 9781621575146
- OCLC:
- 938991884
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