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Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age
Kay S. Hymowitz
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Description for Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age
Paperback. Kay Hymowitz explores the predicament of a generation growing up in a world where adults lavish them with expensive clothes, toys and vacations, but don't know how to provide them the ordinary truths that give life meaning. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 170 x 16. Weight in Grams: 299. Very good clean copy
Kay Hymowitz explores the predicament of a generation growing up in a world where adults lavish them with material possessions but don't know how to provide them with the ordinary truths that give life meaning. She takes the measure of a young generation afflicted with a loss of deep connection, civility, and moral clarity, as well as a depleted vision of the human predicament.
Kay Hymowitz explores the predicament of a generation growing up in a world where adults lavish them with material possessions but don't know how to provide them with the ordinary truths that give life meaning. She takes the measure of a young generation afflicted with a loss of deep connection, civility, and moral clarity, as well as a depleted vision of the human predicament.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc Chicago, IL
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566635981
SKU
KEX0249992
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About Kay S. Hymowitz
Kay Hymowitz is the author of Ready or Not: Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Their Future and Ours. She has written for the Wall Street Journal, the New Republic, and the New York Times, and is a contributing editor of City Journal.
Reviews for Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age
This book is both engaging and brutal as social observation...
Paula S. Fass
The Review of Higher Education
An informed, intelligent and very powerful critique...Written with wit, with pointed examples and with passion. A very important book.
Judith Wallerstein, Ph.D. Adults...should take note of Hymowitz's observations about what 'liberation' has wrought.
William J. Bennett, former ... Read more
Paula S. Fass
The Review of Higher Education
An informed, intelligent and very powerful critique...Written with wit, with pointed examples and with passion. A very important book.
Judith Wallerstein, Ph.D. Adults...should take note of Hymowitz's observations about what 'liberation' has wrought.
William J. Bennett, former ... Read more