Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline

by Theodore Dalrymple

Book Overview

Theodore Dalrymple's brilliant new collection of writings follows on the extraordinary success of his earlier books, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It. No writer today is more adept and incisive in exploring the state of our culture and the ideas that are changing our ways of life. In Not with a Bang But a Whimper, he takes the measure of our cultural decline, with special attention to Britain-its bureaucratic muddle,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566637953
• ISBN13: 9781566637954
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"