Everybody Knows: Cynicism in AmericaU of Minnesota Press, 1978 |
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... Clinton . As sure as " Watergate " now calls forth a cultural memory of abused power , " Monica Lewinsky " seems sure to mark a high - water moment for American cynicism . To be sure , the diagnosis of cynicism had been xi Introduction.
... Clinton . As sure as " Watergate " now calls forth a cultural memory of abused power , " Monica Lewinsky " seems sure to mark a high - water moment for American cynicism . To be sure , the diagnosis of cynicism had been xi Introduction.
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... Clinton told pollsters that they did not consider their candidate honest and trustworthy . But this did not fully prepare us for Monica . As a variety of scan- dals accumulated around President Clinton in the winter and spring of 1998 ...
... Clinton told pollsters that they did not consider their candidate honest and trustworthy . But this did not fully prepare us for Monica . As a variety of scan- dals accumulated around President Clinton in the winter and spring of 1998 ...
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... Clinton . We say we are shocked - shocked ! —to see TV talk- ing heads , politicians , celebrities , or experts promoting projects that coincide with their private self - interest . But nobody really believes a public figure might ...
... Clinton . We say we are shocked - shocked ! —to see TV talk- ing heads , politicians , celebrities , or experts promoting projects that coincide with their private self - interest . But nobody really believes a public figure might ...
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... Clinton didn't exactly use the " C " word in his inaugural address , but he did quote Chicago's Cardinal Bernardin : " It is wrong to waste the precious gift of time on acrimony and division . " 5 His speech was widely in- terpreted as ...
... Clinton didn't exactly use the " C " word in his inaugural address , but he did quote Chicago's Cardinal Bernardin : " It is wrong to waste the precious gift of time on acrimony and division . " 5 His speech was widely in- terpreted as ...
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... Clinton and Newt Gingrich in this portrait of the original cynic . Diogenes , especially as portrayed by Sloterdijk , asks us to hold the question of cynicism's value open for further investigation . Subsequent chapters in this book ...
... Clinton and Newt Gingrich in this portrait of the original cynic . Diogenes , especially as portrayed by Sloterdijk , asks us to hold the question of cynicism's value open for further investigation . Subsequent chapters in this book ...
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The Values Remedy Community Civility and Belief | 15 |
CynicsinPower Manipulations Lies and Empty Gestures | 27 |
Wig Cynics American Antipolitics and Its Uses | 41 |
Cultural Crisis | 55 |
A Brief History of American Cynicism | 57 |
Federalists and Liberals Setting the Stage for Cynicism | 71 |
Why Americans Hate Politics The Cynicism Trap | 85 |
The Age of Resentment Advanced Applied Cynicism | 143 |
Alternatives | 155 |
Marge the Stoic The Coens Fargo and Civic Solutions | 157 |
So What? Another Side of Cynicism | 171 |
Teachings of the Demonstration Representation in the Streets | 185 |
Politics after Cynicism | 201 |
Solutions and Conclusions | 213 |
Notes | 227 |
Medium Media Mediate Television and Cynicism | 101 |
Bush Burned The Patterns of Televised Politics | 115 |
The Uses of Backlash Applied Cynicism 101 | 129 |
Index | 237 |
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Страница 73 - By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Страница 75 - A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending...
Страница 75 - So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts.
Страница 74 - Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
Страница 74 - There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: The one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.
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Страница 75 - But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.
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