02975nam 2200577Ia 450 991078577410332120230207214514.01-283-59975-997866139122060-7618-5186-0(CKB)2670000000241787(EBL)1021932(OCoLC)855502227(SSID)ssj0000710980(PQKBManifestationID)12315181(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000710980(PQKBWorkID)10692800(PQKB)11768030(MiAaPQ)EBC1021932(Au-PeEL)EBL1021932(CaPaEBR)ebr10602275(CaONFJC)MIL391220(EXLCZ)99267000000024178720100421d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican paradise[electronic resource] hidden ironies, contradictions, illusions, and delusions, paradoxes, dilemmas, and absurdities in American life /Jon HuerLandham, Md. University Press of Americac20101 online resource (230 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7618-5185-2 Includes bibliographic references (p. [195]) and index.Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Readers' Comments on American Paradise:; Table of Contents; Introduction. Welcome to American Paradise; Chapter 1: The Great American Temptation; Chapter 2: The Axis of Evil Temptation; Chapter 3: Merchants of Death; Chapter 4: Paradise Up Close; Chapter 5: What America Has Become; Chapter 6: Life, Liberty, and Happiness; Chapter 7: Freedom's Progress; Chapter 8: The Incredibly Shrinking Nation; Chapter 9: Lifestyle and Other Oddities; Chapter 10: Individualism and Supreme Justice; Chapter 11: The Americanization of LoveChapter 12: Paradise FoundChapter 13: The Perfect State; Chapter 14: A Phantom Nation; Chapter 15: Weapons of Mass Distraction; Chapter 16: All That Glitters; Chapter 17: More Economic Oddities; Chapter 18: What Could Have Been; Chapter 19: Paradise Lost, Again; Chapter 20: Living and Dying by the Sword; Bibliography; Appendix: The American Waste Index; Index; About the AuthorThe way we live, work, and die-alone and with other Americans-have so many hidden layers that we might as well say that there are two Americas: one we think we know and the other virtually unknown to us. Huer discusses this alien part of America in American Paradise.CivilizationUnited StatesCivilization21st centuryUnited StatesSocial conditions21st centuryCivilization.301.0973Huer Jon1527735MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785774103321American paradise3788438UNINA