The only super power : reflections on strength, weakness, and anti-Americanism / Paul Hollander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hollander, Paul, 1932-2019.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--United States.

Political culture.

Anti-Americanism.

United States--Civilization--21st century.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--21st century.

United States--Relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays in The Only Super Power deal with present day American Society_its problems, critiques, and perceptions at home and abroad_with special reference to mass culture, multiculturalism, and radical Islam. Other items examine the aftermath of and continued responses to the fall of Soviet communism and the remaining communist systems.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Pleasures of Hate and the New Anti-Americanism; Part 1. THE NEW ANTI-AMERICAN; Chapter 01. Anti-Americanism and a World-Class Hate Crim; Chapter 02. Anti-Americanism:Murderous and Rhetorical; Chapter 03. The Politics of Envy; Chapter 04. Anti-Americanism and Moral Equivalence; Part 2. AMERICANA; Chapter 05. Our Society and Its Celebrities; Chapter 06. Watching Celebrities; Chapter 07. Michael Moore: The New Political Celebrity; Chapter 08. SUVs and Americans; Chapter 09. The Chronic Ailments of Television News

Chapter 10. Stereotyping and the Decline of Common SenseChapter 11. Tawana Brawley and the "Exotic Dancer" at Duke; Chapter 12. An Islamic Requirement on Campus; Chapter 13. Rehabilitating the Great Books: Literature and Life; Chapter 14. The Counterculture of the Heart; Chapter 15. Old and Busier Than Ever; Part 3. FOREIGN MATTERS; Chapter 16. American Travelers to the Soviet Union; Chapter 17. Alexander Yakovlev; Chapter 18. Violence of Higher Purpose; Chapter 19. The North Korean Gulag; Chapter 20. Admiring North Korea; Chapter 21. The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution

Chapter 22. Crossing the Moral Threshold: The Rejection of Communist Systems in Eastern EuropeChapter 23. Ambivalent in Amsterdam; Chapter 24. Travel in the Peloponnesos; Part 4. THE SURVIVAL ANDREPLENISHMENT OF THE ADVERSARY CULTU; Chapter 25. The Resilience of the Adversary Culture; Chapter 26. The Chomsky Phenomenon; Chapter 27. The Banality of Evil and the Political Culture of Hatred; Chapter 28. The Left and the Palestinians; Chapter 29. The Personal and the Political in Lessing's Fiction; Chapter 30. Haven in Cuba; Chapter 31. Demystifying Marxism

Chapter 32. Public Intellectuals and the God That FailedPart 5. IN CONCLUSION; Chapter 33. From a "Builder of Socialism" to" Free-Floating Intellectual": My Politically Incorrect Career in Sociology; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-282-49365-5

9786612493652

0-7391-3133-8

9780739131336

OCLC:

301377426