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Synopsis
In Age of Contradiction, Howard Brick provides a rich context for understanding historical events, cultural tensions, political figures, artistic works, and trends of intellectual life. His lucid and comprehensive book combines the best methods of historical analysis and assessment with fascinating subject matter to create a three-dimensional...
Table of Contents
Contradictions of the affluent society --Knowledge and ideology --Development and its discontents --Authenticity and artifice --Community and mass society --Systems and the distrust of order --Peace and violence.