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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780865974098
Publisher:	Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/02/2003
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)
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

Editorial Reviews

"Historian Nisbet analyzes events and trends in the United States in the period after 1914. He criticizes Woodrow Wilson’s moralistic and militaristic foreign policy as well as his attempts at social engineering at home and questions whether republican self-government can survive the ongoing expansion of the state’s concerns and responsibilities. The volume was originally published in 1988 by Harper & Row."

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