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ISBN
9780385479431

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385479433
ISBN-13
9780385479431
eBay Product ID (ePID)
144245

Product Key Features

Book Title
In Defense of Elitism
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Criticism, Political
Publication Year
1995
Genre
Philosophy, Social Science
Author
William A. Henry
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.5 in
Item Weight
6.8 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in

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Trade
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
"A  passionate yet reasoned argument for the proposition  that some people simply contribute more to society  than others. It challenges head-on the  presumptions and platitudes of government, academia, and  even private industry." --The  Atlanta Journal Constitution. "A wide-ranging, free-swinging commentary that will  raise the hackles of nearly everyone." --  New York Times. "Bracing... eloquent testimony that what killed  liberalism in this country is a deeply misguided  egalitarianism." --The New York Times  Book Review., "A  passionate yet reasoned argument for the proposition  that some people simply contribute more to society  than others. It challenges head-on the  presumptions and platitudes of government, academia, and  even private industry." -- The  Atlanta Journal Constitution . "A wide-ranging, free-swinging commentary that will  raise the hackles of nearly everyone." --   New York Times . "Bracing... eloquent testimony that what killed  liberalism in this country is a deeply misguided  egalitarianism." -- The New York Times  Book Review ., "A  passionate yet reasoned argument for the proposition  that some people simply contribute more to society  than others. It challenges head-on the  presumptions and platitudes of government, academia, and  even private industry." -- The  Atlanta Journal Constitution. "A wide-ranging, free-swinging commentary that will  raise the hackles of nearly everyone." --  New York Times. "Bracing... eloquent testimony that what killed  liberalism in this country is a deeply misguided  egalitarianism." -- The New York Times  Book Review.
Dewey Decimal
305.5/2/0973
Synopsis
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture criticfor Time magazine comes thetremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive,argument that our devotion to the largelyunexamined myth of egalitarianism lies at the heart of theongoing "dumbing of America." Americans have always stubbornly clung to themyth of egalitarianism, of the supremacy of theindividual average man. But here, at long last,Pulitzer Prize-winning critic William A. Henry IIItakes on, and debunks, some basic, fundamentallyingrained ideas- that everyone is pretty much alike(and should be); that self-fulfillment is moreimortant thant objective achievement; that everyonehas something significant to contribute; that allcultures offer something equally worthwhile; thata truly just society would automatically produceequal success results across lines of race,class, and gender; and that the common man is almostalways right. Henry makes clear, in a book full ofvivid examples and unflinching opinions, thatwhile these notions are seductively democratic theyare also hopelessly wrong., From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion to the largely unexamined myth of egalitarianism lies at the heart of the ongoing "dumbing of America." Americans have always stubbornly clung to the myth of egalitarianism, of the supremacy of the individual average man. But here, at long last, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic William A. Henry III takes on, and debunks, some basic, fundamentally ingrained ideas: that everyone is pretty much alike (and should be); that self-fulfillment is more imortant thant objective achievement; that everyone has something significant to contribute; that all cultures offer something equally worthwhile; that a truly just society would automatically produce equal success results across lines of race, class, and gender; and that the common man is almost always right. Henry makes clear, in a book full of vivid examples and unflinching opinions, that while these notions are seductively democratic they are also hopelessly wrong.

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    11 Jul, 2018

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    An important book wrongly ignored because it put forward politically incorrect views. Superb.

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