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MiTN |
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20190729102650.0 |
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020806s2003 ctua b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2002030727 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0275976394 (alk. paper) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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DLC |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
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DLC |
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n-us--- |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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EY8Z |
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| Classification number |
E169.12 |
| Item number |
.A724 2003 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
973.92 |
| Edition number |
21 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Arden, John Boghosian. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
America's meltdown : |
| Remainder of title |
the lowest-common-denominator society / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
John Boghosian Arden. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Westport, Conn. : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Praeger, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2003. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
vi, 234 p. : |
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ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-230) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
The Lowest Common Denominator -- Cyber Spaced -- Vicarious Living -- Infotainment -- Retail Government -- Lock and Load -- The Bottom of the Barrel -- Shopping and Dropping -- Men and Women Are from Earth -- Hyped Sports -- Waging the Soul -- Punching the Clock -- McMedicine -- Shrink Wrap -- Dumbsizing the Schools -- Mall Art -- The Spiritual Supermarket -- Transcending the Meltdown -- Rebuilding the Future. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Publisher description: Celebrity news, video games, cookie-cutter schools, and shopping, shopping, shopping. As entertainers, corporations, and even the government pander to the lowest common denominator, American life becomes increasingly vicarious, prefabricated, and bereft of meaning. This book examines contemporary American consciousness, considering the factors that have driven society toward gossip and sensationalism at the cost of substance and depth. Arden discusses the growing epidemic of acrimony, superficiality, attention deficit disorder, and complaints of ennui. He targets the reasons why American children have expressed their confused rage with deadly weapons, why a president boasts that he earned Cs in college, and why society has drifted into craving entertainment laced with violence and cheap thrills. The book is provocative reading for concerned citizens, as well as for scholars and researchers involved with contemporary American culture and society. |
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United States |
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Civilization |
| Chronological subdivision |
1970- |
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Popular culture |
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United States. |
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United States |
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Social conditions |
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1980- |
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Mass media |
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Social aspects |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Social psychology |
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United States. |
| 948 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC); SERIES PART DESIGNATOR (RLIN) |
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u164208 |
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