The Last Refuge. Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror - Orr, David W.
Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror
KORTE INHOUD
"Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels" -SAMUEL JOHNSON, 1775 "a tightly reasoned, excellently written book that should be lethally effective in helping readers who aren't experts understand the contours of the crisis." -TOLEDO BLADE Updated and revised following the 2004 elections, The Last Refuge describes the current state of American politics against the backdrop of mounting ecological and social problems, the corrosive influence of money, the corruption of language, and the misuse of terrorism as a political issue. Setting out an agenda that transcends conventional ideological labels, David Orr contends that partisan wrangling is only a symptom of a deeper dysfunction: The whole political machinery that connects Americans' fundamentally honorable ideals with public policy is broken. The book offers a withering critique of the failings of the Bush administration, supplemented by new essays that look at the national-level dominance of the Republican Party and examine the fallacy that the evangelical ...
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172 p. Hardcover with dustjacket (Fine copy.) Washington/Covelo/London, Island Press 2004 [Auteur: Orr, David W.] [Jaar: 2004] [Titel: The Last Refuge. Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror]
