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Title: America Day by Day by Simone De Beauvoir, Carol Cosman, Simone de Beauvoir, Douglas Brinkley ISBN: 0-520-20979-6 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This time, a frenchWOMAN visits america
Comment: I never met Simone but the visit to America that resulted in this book ended the day I was born and we knew people in common, including Nelson Algren. This book is fun. We think of Simone as the woman who initiated the second wave of feminism with her book, "The Second Sex;" as the companion of Jean-Paul Sartre, a man plagued by lobsters and his own sense of self; as the globe-trotting political activist. Some may know her as the author of the frightening novel, "She Came To Stay." The Simone who wrote this book was the best part of Simone de Beauvoir. The book is a snapshot of America, entering the center stage of world power, taken by a native of a country whose time of leadership has passed. It is also the story of a middle-aged woman falling in love. This book was unavailable for many years but it is important both as a view of America in mid-century and as an insight into one of the most important women of the 20th century.
Rating: 5
Summary: America Day by Day
Comment: An excellent place to begin seeing America through critical eyes. A companion piece to this is Henry Miller's "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare."
Rating: 4
Summary: God Bless the French
Comment: Like de Toqueville before her, Simone de Beauvoir analyzes America, its present state and future promise, as only an outsider can, objectively, without influence or taint from the very values and phenomena under examination. If that makes _America Day by Day_ sound like something other than a travel book, good, because it is much, much more.
It is an insightful essay on the very things that define us as a nation: our optimism, our work ethic, our *color line,* and our politics. Offered to us episodically, in the pages of her travel journal, her thoughts on American society are so accurate and penetrating that her conclusions remain relevant today.
And her main conclusion is this: "...America is one of the pivotal points of the world, where the future of man is being played out. To 'like' America, to 'dislike' it -- these words have no meaning. It is a battlefield, and you can only become passionate about the battle it is waging with itself, in which stakes are beyond measure." Everyone should read this book to discover why we are a "pivotal point" and what that means for us and the rest of the nations of the world.
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Title: The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone De Beauvoir, Somone De Beauvior ISBN: 080650160X Publisher: Citadel Trade Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Beyond the American Dream: Lifelong Learning and the Search for Meaning in a Postmodern World by Charles D. Hayes ISBN: 0962197920 Publisher: Autodidactic Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism by Joseph Childers, Gary Hentzi ISBN: 0231072430 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $28.50 |
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Title: Adcult USA by James B. Twitchell ISBN: 0231103255 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness by Stuart Ewen, Elizabeth Ewen ISBN: 0816618909 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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