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...world now appears inexplicably torn by tension and dissension, its vast treasure squandered with a profligate's hand, its fabulous beauty pockmarked by hideous urban scars. Has the American Dream become the American damnation, a formula for selfishness rather than equality and excellence? British Historian Sir Denis Brogan flatly states: "This is not going to be the American century. Very few people are enamored of the American way of life." Arthur Krock expresses a visceral fear that "the tenure of the United States as the first power in the world may be one of the briefest in history...
...candidates have wooed them; for a glorious week, they will stand at the whirling hub of decision. Yet they are widely described as mere tools of the true decision makers. The great scholars of American politics have largely ignored them: neither Tocqueville nor Lord Bryce nor Sir Denis Brogan take them very seriously. Yet these seemingly faceless men and women are now at the focus of national attention...
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Socialist Michael Harrington is one of the last of the political evangelists-by temperament more Old Left than New Left. He comes on, in the words of Britain's best America-watcher, D. W. Brogan, like a pastor at the moment of decadence. In The Other America, Harrington heaped coals on the heads of his middle-class pewholders by exposing the suffering of the "invisible poor"-and helped make it a new priority of national concern. In this book, Harrington attempts Jeremiah's longest leap: from the catalogue of sins to the calculus of redemption. "The American system...
...pinnacle of material prosperity. In seeking the creature comforts of the modern age, other nations consider it incidental that most of the goods can be obtained most cheaply and efficiently in ways and styles designed by the Yanks. Says Britain's leading Americanologist, Sir Denis Brogan: "What is called Americanization in the rest of the world is largely modern industrialization. America is the chief modern industrialized society, in all the things that means in the last third of the 20th century, from automation to urbanization to mass affluence." "No other country in the world," adds Italian Designer Emilio Pucci...