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Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin de Siecle Hardcover - 1995
by Lewis Lapham
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In Hotel America, Lewis Lapham draws a portrait of a society at a loss to know what to think or make of itself at the end of a century once defined as America's own. His observations speak to the moral and intellectual confusions visited upon the American ruling elites - in the media and the universities as well as in business and government - during the years 1989-1995. The spectacle is both comic and sad, a march of folly that calls forth Lapham's unique range of talents as an essayist - clarity of mind, acerbic wit, a thorough knowledge of American history (both ancient and modern), a sense of the absurd, a gift for the apt word and memorable phrase. Drawn across a broad canvas of incidental and scene. Lapham's sketches take as their occasions events as different from one another as the wars in Panama and the Persian Gulf, the apotheosis of Richard Nixon and the transfiguration of O. J. Simpson, the grim inspections of the American soul conducted by the agents of both the pious left (no smoking cigarettes, no dirty water in the swimming pools, condoms in the schools) and the zealous right (no serial murders in the movies, no lesbians in the army, prayer in the schools), the media's use of history as wallpaper and elevator music, the dwindling significance of President Clinton (vanishing as mysteriously as the Cheshire cat) and the bombastic arrival of Newt Gingrich ("a man for all grievances"), the practice of swindling the stockholders and the art of changing gossip into news.
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- Title Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin de Siecle
- Author Lewis Lapham
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 378
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Verso, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date September 1995
- Features Index
- ISBN 9781859849521 / 1859849520
- Weight 1.76 lbs (0.80 kg)
- Dimensions 9.51 x 6.47 x 1.41 in (24.16 x 16.43 x 3.58 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-21592
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.92
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- Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/1995, Page 1329
- Library Journal, 10/15/1995, Page 79
- New York Times, 11/12/1995, Page 56
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