Screen LibraryAmerica through foreign eyes /
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780190224493 0190224495 |
| Index Number: | E895 |
| CLC: | D771.2 |
| Call Number: | D771.2/C346 |
| Contents: | American sameness, or the world's first middle class -- How exceptional is American exceptionalism? -- The blessings of American culture and the road to American civilization -- Dysfunctional democracy and its discontents -- Don't know much about history ... but "if you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you" (Groucho Marx) -- Apple and Wall Street -- American pragmatism and hypocrisy : drugs and immigration -- Race and religion in America -- The unforgivable : mass incarceration, the death penalty, guns, and intelligent design. |