| Lengthened Shadows: America and Its Institutions in the Twenty-First Century Contributor(s): Kimball, Roger (Editor), Kramer, Hilton (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1594030545 ISBN-13: 9781594030543 Publisher: Encounter Books OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2004 Annotation: This book offers a series of penetrating reflections on the state of American culture and its prospects, from military to higher education, from religion and law to music and visual arts. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Essays - History | United States - 21st Century - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
| Dewey: 306.097 |
| LCCN: 2004054338 |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6.08" W x 9.12" (0.92 lbs) 266 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In a series of penetrating reflections on the United States and its institutions in the post-9/11 world, this book offers some answers to questions that people at home and abroad have begun to ask about our country. How did it attain its international preeminence? What exactly is this richest, most powerful of countries made of? Where will its unmatched influence lead? Military historian Frederick Kagan discusses the future of our armed forces and the challenges they will face in defending America's unique position. David B. Hart shows how religion, with all its variety and occasional excess, is alive and striving in America, with the power to shelter many virtues under its promises of supernatural grace. From the future of the law to the future of higher education, from music to the visual arts, Lengthened Shadows provides a unique situation report on American culture today. Writers and thinkers such as Robert Bork, Hilton Kramer, Roger Kimball and Mark Steyn offer a probing assessment of the institutions that organize our lives--their health, their influence and their prospects--at the beginning of what some commentators are calling the next American century. |