The Business of America : How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the Trend.
Material type: TextSeries: Pathways Through the Twenty-First Century SerPublisher: Florence : Routledge, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (214 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203494752Subject(s): Air -- Pollution -- United States | Consumption (Economics) -- United States | Corporations -- Corrupt practices -- United States | Fraud -- United States | Mass media -- United States | United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009 | United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Business of America : How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the TrendDDC classification: 306/.0973 LOC classification: HN59.2 -- .L36 2004ebOnline resources: Click to ViewBook Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Bush Vision -- The Culture of Naked Power -- Politics and the Enron Scandal, Part I: The Enron System Works- Well, for Some People! -- Enron, Part II: Sex and the Enron Scam -- A Dialogue about Sex, Violence, and the Budget -- It's the Budget Stupid! - Bush's Lucky Duckies -- 2 Classify This! -- The Intelligence Culture in the National Security Age -- Our Aging Faust -- A Panglossian Conversation -- History? What's That? -- 3 Sheep Don't Need Whipping: -- World News in Shotgun Pellets of Anxiety from the Media -- Religious Diversion from the Issues in the Age of Reason and Hi Tech -- Review of Pollock -- Advertising Can Make You Personally and Politically Crazy -- Commercial Messages Produce Advanced Scatteration -- Television: Democracy at Its Ugliest -- Clear Channel Fogs the Airwaves -- The Film Industry: Business and Ideology -- 4 Ahab Can Beat the Whale -- At Two with Nature -- Commuting in Los Angeles -- Privatize-The Key to Public Culture -- Will the Next War Be Against Smog? -- A Global Warming Sermon in Dialogue -- An Anza Borrego Odyssey -- Mount Whitney Towers over Death Valley, but Death Valley Doesn't Look Up to Whitney -- Diseased Meat? -Could Be Wurst! -- Exporting the Best Chemicals the Stomach Can Absorb -- Las Vegas: Bush's America -- Cuba Is Not Las Vegas: Scenes from a Late Summer Havana Wedding -- 5 The Iraq Conundrum -- Bush and King Henry- Similar Birds of Different Feathers -- Don't Get Distracted by Cameron Diaz's Acne or Talk of War -- How 9/11 Events Helped Democracy to Evolve toward Perfection -- Different Worlds -- Shiite Happens -- The Quiet American Returns on Film -- Shopping, the End of the World, and G.W.Bush: Part I -- Part II -- 6 Closing Remarks.
There Is Life after Shopping- and It Feels Good -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Web Sites -- Index.
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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