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Title: Systemic Angst in a Polarized America

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: When I first read Charles Murrays new book about white America coming apart at the seams, I was immediately reminded of two other recent volumes on that growing shelf of books about the breakdown of America society and the dire consequences of a nation rent with polarizing differences. The first was Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.s, The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (1991), a book about what its author saw as the increasing balkanization of a polity that seemed to be inexorably moving from its glory days of E Pluribus Unum to E Pluribus Plures. Schlesinger had highlighted the catalytic role of the rise of black power and the powerful influence of certain Afro-centrists, abetted by nave liberal allies, in instigating the whole process. The second was Samuel Huntingtons Who Are We?: The Challenge to Americas National Identity (2004)...

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Authors: Rose, Peter I.

Periodical (Full): Society

Issue: 6

Volume: 49

Pages: 554-557

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Poverty and Welfare

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