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Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin-De-Siecle
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Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin-De-Siecle Hardcover - 1995

by Lapham, Lewis

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London: Verso, 1995. 1st printing of 1st edition. A clean fine trade hard cover book/ short closed tear otherwise near fine dust jacket.
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  • Title Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin-De-Siecle
  • Author Lapham, Lewis
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st printing of 1st edition
  • Condition Used - A clean fine trade hard cover book/ short closed tear otherwise near fine dust jacket
  • Pages 378
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher London: Verso, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1995
  • Features Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 597015
  • 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)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-21592
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.92

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From the rear cover

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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Media reviews

“A wonderful book.”—New York Times Book Review

“Few writers match Lapham's witty, entertaining style, and his insight into the issues of the period. Entertaining reading: strongly recommended.”—Library Journal

“Lapham ... is one of the few practicing masters of the political essay. His essays are insightful, original and witty ... [Hotel America provides] a necessary reminder of how the country really works.”—Toronto Globe and Mail

“Lapham refuses to talk down to his audience, much less cozy up to its ignorance and prejudices ... Nor will he surrender a jot of his wit, erudition and style.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Lapham's portraits of his country are astute and his dry wit as sharp as a knife.”—Times

“The essays in this anthology ... have in common with Lapham’s brilliance, acerbic wit, and disdain for all those who ‘defend the sanctity of myth against the heresy of fact’ ... Lapham believes that ‘a raucous assembly of citizens unafraid to speak their minds’ prods Americans to think creatively about their future. This raucous assembly of one proves the point.”—Kirkus Review

Citations

  • 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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