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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823704603321

Autore

Landau Saul

Titolo

The business of America : how consumers have replaced citizens and how we can reverse the trend / / Saul Landau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-00108-8

1-134-00109-6

1-280-16073-X

0-203-49475-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Paths for the twenty-first century

Disciplina

306/.0973

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - United States

Mass media - United States

Air - Pollution - United States

Corporations - Corrupt practices - United States

Fraud - United States

United States Social conditions 1980-2020

United States Politics and government 2001-2009

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

The Bush vision: a bipolar political disorder -- Classify this! National security culture sets the norm -- Sheep don't need whipping: media in the 21st century -- Ahab can beat the whale -- The Iraq connundrum -- Closing remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

Written by one of the most insightful critics of American commercialism, The Business of America probes the forces that have transformed citizens into consumers eager to take as much as they can from the planet.