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200 10$aAmerican paradise$b[electronic resource] $ehidden ironies, contradictions, illusions, and delusions, paradoxes, dilemmas, and absurdities in American life /$fJon Huer
210   $aLandham, Md. $cUniversity Press of America$dc2010
215   $a1 online resource (230 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographic references (p. [195]) and index.
327   $aCover; 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 Love
327   $aChapter 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 Author
330   $aThe 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.
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