America's Meltdown: The Lowest-Common-Denominator Society

by John Boghosian Arden

Book Overview

As entertainers, corporations, and even the government pander to the lowest common denominator, American life becomes increasingly vicarious, prefabricated, and bereft of meaning. This book examines contemporary American consciousness, considering the factors that have driven society toward gossip and sensationalism at the cost of substance and depth.

Celebrity news, video games, cookie-cutter schools, and shopping, shopping, shopping. As...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275976394
• ISBN13: 9780275976392
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"