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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
KEX0250209
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99-7
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 U.S. Secretary of Education, author of The Book of Virtues Rewarding...penetrating.
Booklist
One of America's best analysts of child-rearing...fascinating.... Hymowitz is on to some very important truths...a masterpiece.
National Review
Scrupulously points out the all-too-familiar obsession with individual autonomy.
The Weekly Standard
Hymowitz raises difficult questions that should not be ignored, and she presents them with a befitting urgency.... Thought-provoking...
Foreword Reviews
Offers an original and coherent reading of contemporary bewilderment about what our children need....
Times Literary Supplement
A very different set of insights which parents will appreciate.
Bookwatch
Sharply drawn analyses...
Adolescence Magazine
A devastating debunking of fashionable ideas that have brought much frustration and heartache to parents and children alike...It is impossible to summarize the many insights of 'Liberation's Children’. Get a copy of each and discover their sobering message yourself.
Thomas Sowell, Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Capitalism Magazine
Liberation’s Children is a collection of essays that deserves to be knit together into the fabric of a book.
Mark Daims
Human Nature Review
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 U.S. Secretary of Education, author of The Book of Virtues Rewarding...penetrating.
Booklist
One of America's best analysts of child-rearing...fascinating.... Hymowitz is on to some very important truths...a masterpiece.
National Review
Scrupulously points out the all-too-familiar obsession with individual autonomy.
The Weekly Standard
Hymowitz raises difficult questions that should not be ignored, and she presents them with a befitting urgency.... Thought-provoking...
Foreword Reviews
Offers an original and coherent reading of contemporary bewilderment about what our children need....
Times Literary Supplement
A very different set of insights which parents will appreciate.
Bookwatch
Sharply drawn analyses...
Adolescence Magazine
A devastating debunking of fashionable ideas that have brought much frustration and heartache to parents and children alike...It is impossible to summarize the many insights of 'Liberation's Children’. Get a copy of each and discover their sobering message yourself.
Thomas Sowell, Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Capitalism Magazine
Liberation’s Children is a collection of essays that deserves to be knit together into the fabric of a book.
Mark Daims
Human Nature Review