The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America

by Robert Nisbet

Overview

The Present Age challenges readers to reexamine the role of the United States in the world since World War I. Nisbet criticizes Americans for isolationism at home and discusses the gutting of educational standards, the decay of education, the presence of government in all facets of life, the diminished connection to community, and the prominence of economic arrangements driving everyday life in America.

Robert Nisbet (1913–1996) taught at Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley, Smith College, and the University of Bologna.

Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614872252
Publisher:	Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/02/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	156
File size:	297 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

I. The Prevalence of War 1

II. The New Absolutism 41

III. The Loose Individual 87

Epilogue 137

Index 141