In this always timely study, Charles Derber looks at societal fears like violent crime and terrorism, arguing that there are contradictions between today's American Dream and American prospects for success. The price of failure (frustration and rage) and the price of success (emptiness and fear) threaten the bonds of community and the survival of the society. This new edition of The Wilding of America further chronicles recent examples of societal illness, including the sex scandal in the Catholic Church and the greed and corruption displayed in the ENRON debacle. It also includes a study of the war in Iraq and, as we re-build their country, the questions that arise about what makes community, and society itself, possible at all. Derber shows the defences Americans have built up against this wilding epidemic and offers practical, immediate solutions to fight and cure the disease that threatens to erode the moral landscape of American society.
- ISBN10 071678257X
- ISBN13 9780716782575
- Publish Date 1 May 2006 (first published 1 January 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Imprint Worth Publishers
- Edition 4th ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 206
- Language English