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1 online resource (348 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; A Note on the Essays; 1. The War Against Women; A Telling Indictment; The Crazy Notion of Women's Equality; A Term of Contempt; Rape; 2. The War Against the Public; A Question of Economics; Voodoo Economics; Think Before You Cross the Picket Line; The Plight of America's Cities; Guardians of the Free World; So Ends 1990; Some Thoughts on Christmas; What America Has Lost; 3. The Failed War Against Drugs; On Poisons Legal and Illegal; A Different Tack in the War on Drugs; Why We Should Legalize Drugs; 4. The Culture of Violence |
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The American WayThe Pornography of Violence; Guns and Democracy; Assault Weapons and Illusory Hopes; A National Icon; We Are Not Protected; The Unfortunate Case of Mike Tyson; 5. Anti-Semitism and Racism; The Sickness of Anti-Semitism; The Merchant of Venice; Two Stories in Black and White; The Fire That Does Not Dim; Defenders of Law and Order; It Is Indeed an Interesting Thing; The Willie Horton Syndrome; The David Duke Syndrome; David Duke, Populist?; Patrick J. Buchanan (A Bad Dream Come to Life); 6. Crimes and Punishments; Oliver North; Equal Justice; In Greed We Trust |
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The Rewards of BetrayalLet the Punishment Fit the Crime; Who Pays the Price?; 7. Rights, Values, and Religion; The Right to Protest; Traditional American Values; In the Name of Religion; Credentials Made of Sealing Wax; Keep Freedom of Religion Free; 8. The Right to Life; The Right-to-Life Movement; A Very Compassionate Man; Life Is a Mixed Bag; 9. New York City; The Race for Mayor, 1989; The Name of the Game; A Vote for the City's Survival; Mayor Dinkins; America Without New York City?; 10. Our Friends in Washington; The Great Communicator; Our Poor, Underpaid Government; Interpreter Wanted |
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She Tells It Like It IsPeople in Glass Houses; The Fuzzy Boundaries of Ethics; It's No Joke; Nobody Is Without Sin; The Men Who Become President; The Price of Truth; A Flight of Fancy, Grounded; The Comic, the Tragic, and the Compassionate; One Loony Week; A Champion of Ignorance; The Mind of George Bush; The Mother of Parliaments; Who Destroys Our Home ... ; Murderers and Liars Also Have Rights; The White House Astrologer; The Definition of Obscene; Strange Creatures; Have They No Shame?; Those Whom the Gods Would Destroy ... ; Another Flight of Fancy; Who Represents the People? |
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Bush Is SickenedHow Could He Know?; Where Is the Public Outrage?; Choosing the Vice President; Chutzpah; A Short Jaunt Down Memory Lane; Clowns and Fools; Uncommon Thieves; Democracy Explains It All; The President Tells How to Save America; Labels Can Be Accurate; 11. The United States and Latin America; Silly Questions; What Brave Fellows; A Letter to the President; What Every Nicaraguan Understands; Why Our Great Democracy Goes to War; 12. The Collapse of Communism; A Prison and a Church; Let Anti-Communism Be Laid to Rest; Why Soviet Communism Failed; 13. The Failures of the Media |
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Front-Page Criminals |
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Pacifism.
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Pacifism
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140524
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-1993. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89000002
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315484969 |
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131548496X |
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