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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism

by Cornel West

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Praised by the New York Times for his "ferocious moral vision," Cornel West returns to the analysis of what he calls the arrested development of democracy with a masterful diagnosis. Pointing to the rise of three antidemocratic dogmas that are rendering the energy of American democracy impotenta callous free-market fundamentalism, an aggressive militarism, and an insidious authoritarianismWest argues that racism and imperial bullying have gone hand in hand in our country's inexorable drive toward world dominance, including our current militaristic excesses. This impassioned and empowering call for the revitalization of America's democracy, by one of our most distinctive and compelling social critics, will reshape the raging national debate about America's role in today's troubled world.

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Pointing to the rise of free-market fundamentalism, an aggressive militarism, and an insidious authoritarianism, the author calls for the revitalization ofAmerica's democracy.

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Cornel West is Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion at Princeton. The author of the contemporary classic Race Matters, he is a recipient of the American Book Award.
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9780143035831
Subtitle:
Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
Author:
West, Cornel
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West, Cornel
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West, Cornell
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Subject:
United States - General
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Democracy
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Imperialism
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Political Ideologies - Democracy
Publication Date:
September 2005
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Paperback
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English
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229
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