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Title: The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass by Myron Magnet ISBN: 1-893554-02-3 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: 07 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Why the World Is The Way It Is
Comment: I read the original edition of this book and it is by far the most important social/political critique I've ever read. If you've ever asked yourself, "Why is the world the way it is today?", this book will help provide an answer. It indicts liberalism for its devastating social experimentation, utilizing a priori logic while never demonizing the intentions of liberals (a break the left never gives conservatives). Magnet explains that it's not liberal intentions which were wrong, but the incentives and disincentives created by liberal social policies which were so tragic, particulary for poor minorities. Ideas which were radical just thirty years ago have become unquestioned mainstream assumptions, the very Establishment itself.
Every social problem we face today, from crime to drug addiction, broken families to school violence can be traced back to the absolute sea-change America and the rest of the West went through during the Sixties and early Seventies. The impact of that time can not be overstated yet Magnet manages to explain this in a rather slim volume. Anyone looking for answers will find them in this excellent, passionate book. Things will make sense after reading it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not Only What Went Wrong, but How It Can Be Reversed
Comment: Myron Magnet's The Dream and the Nightmare is brilliant because it not only gives the statistics and endless accounts of what has gone wrong since the start of the United States' mid-20th century cultural revolution, but it also explains WHY those areas deteriorated (some have improved, obviously) and how they can be reversed. Along with Marvin Olasky, Myron Magnet is considered a foundational author of the compassionate conservatism philosophy that President Bush campaigned upon during the 2000 presidential election. This is Magnet's manifesto for that philosophy.
In this book Mr. Magnet traces the roots of the radical shift that the privileged classes, the "Haves" as he labels them, enacted upon the culture of America and the entire Western world. He documents how in the middle 1900s these intellectuals, with a worldview based in Marxism and Freudianism, used America's universities and judiciaries to take hold of the system and transmogrify it to fit their causes, many which were originally well-meaning but ultimately, and tragically, misguided. The results of their success in turning America's previous culture on its head are seen throughout our society, but its effects have been far more pernicious to the impoverished, or, the "Have-nots." The change in crime, illiteracy, illegitimacy, income and many other telling rates from the American underclass began almost instantly and are now staggeringly depressing. Most of us have seen these numbers repeated ad infinitum, but this book will show you how and why these things happened in a way that many other social commentaries will not. This is a fantastic work that addresses a sad topic with an optimistic tone. It is one that all Americans should read and explain to their families and children as well.
Rating: 4
Summary: very good book
Comment: This book is part of a growing chorus of voices that are saying that not only are the hip and multicultural ideas garbage, but that they are quickly turning America into a third world country.
This book cuts through dumb ideas and tries to get us back to basics: functional families, responsibility for yourself, a work ethic -- this is the rather stringent prescription for an America that Magnet correctly describes as having run amok with bleeding heart liberalism and its dopey ideas of cheap sex, easy divorce, abortion on demand, and throwing money at the poor in the hopes that they will begin to function properly.
The book isn't elegantly written and there isn't any poetry in it, but this book sets the right prescription on the table. Read it if you want to get your head on straight.
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Title: The Tragedy of American Compassion by Marvin Olasky ISBN: 089526725X Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values by Gertrude Himmelfarb ISBN: 0679764909 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Compassionate Conservatism: What it is, What it Does, and How it Can Transform America by Marvin Olasky ISBN: 0743201310 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: On Character: Essays by James Q. Wilson ISBN: 0844737879 Publisher: American Enterprise Institute Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: On Looking into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society by Gertrude Himmelfarb ISBN: 0679759239 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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