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America-Lite
David Hillel Gelernter
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Description for America-Lite
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 285.
America-Lite (where we all live) is just like America, only turned into an amusement park or a video game or a supersized Pinkberry, where the past and future are blank and there is only a big NOW. How did we come to expect no virtue and so much cynicism from our culture, our leaders-and each other? In this refreshingly judgmental book, David Gelernter connects the historical dots to reveal a stealth revolution carried out by post-religious globalist intellectuals who, by and large, "can't run their own universities or scholarly fields, but are very sure they can run you." These ... Read more
America-Lite (where we all live) is just like America, only turned into an amusement park or a video game or a supersized Pinkberry, where the past and future are blank and there is only a big NOW. How did we come to expect no virtue and so much cynicism from our culture, our leaders-and each other? In this refreshingly judgmental book, David Gelernter connects the historical dots to reveal a stealth revolution carried out by post-religious globalist intellectuals who, by and large, "can't run their own universities or scholarly fields, but are very sure they can run you." These ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Encounter Books,USA United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781594037085
SKU
V9781594037085
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About David Hillel Gelernter
David Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale, contributing editor at the Weekly Standard, regular contributor to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and former board member of the National Endowment for the Arts. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, and his essays are widely anthologized. Among his many books are Mirror Worlds ("one of the most influential books ... Read more
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