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- Product code: 27126
- ISBN: 190393379X,
ISBN13: 9781903933794,
304 pages, hardback
Published by Gibson Square Books Ltd on 2006
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Description of God Won't Save America |
Why does America attract such caustic comment from both left and right? Why is it aberrantly obsessed with sex? Why is business seen as next to divinity? Why does she keep the death penalty? And what makes her oscillate unnervingly between isolationism and ruinous foreign aggression? All of these different strands make it hard to size America up. One moment you see the successful, liberty-loving democracy and neo-liberal economic order that America calls on the world to emulate. The next you see a less inviting picture, which as an advertisement for the American way of life is the reverse of inspirational: The boom in pornography, the rigors of political correctness, the gun laws, the problems of overripe individualism, the rise of religion and its influence on politics and fears about where the country may be heading. In this highly topical, highly original and controversial book George Walden, shows why America's puritanical origins explain why she is the maddening country she is. More religious than any other country, the paradox of America is that, like Europe, she is destined to become less rather than more religious, as faith becomes more a lifestyle than a matter of belief - and that she will ultimately be torn apart.
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Reviews'A book with such penetrating insight into a very complex topic that is at the same time be so readable and even witty can only be the hallmark of a masterful author.' Henry Kissinger
'A much needed corrective.’ Gerard Baker The Tablet
'Walden is on to something.’ Gavin Esler Daily Mail Critic’s Choice
‘This is clever stuff’ Daily Telegraph
| Contents of God Won't Save America |
David Cameron, The Prince of Hearts
Introduction
1 In Search of the Elites
2 The Misunderstood Masses
3 A Populist Oligarchy
4 The Fine English Art of Condescension
5 A Culture of Pretence
6 Pop Politics
7 Pop Media
8 Unsentimental Education
9 Late Thoughts
Index
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About George Walden |
George Walden was private secretary to Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, and was a fellow at Harvard. He is a recent Booker Prize chairman, and is currently the secretary of the Russian Booker Prize, as well as a frequent commentator on television and radio, as well as a prolific reviewer in all national newspapers.
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