The Myth of America's Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies
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Publication
2013-11-04 - Liveright
Word Count
88,000 words, Guess
Page Count
352 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL26857750M
- ISBN-139780871404497
- ISBN-100871404494
- OCLC Control Number857863136
- OCLC Control Numbermythofamericasde0000joff
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- Library of Congress Control Number2013019764
Classifications
- LCCE169.12 .J63 2014
Description
"While it may be catnip for the media to play up America as a has-been, Josef Joffe, a ... German commentator and Stanford University academic, [proposes] that Declinism is not a cold-eyed diagnosis but a device in the style of the ancient prophets ... Gloom is a prophecy that must be believed so that it will turn out wrong. Joffe [posits that] 'economic miracles' that propelled the rising tide of challengers flounder against their own limits. Hardly confined to Europe alone, Declinism has also been an especially nifty career builder for American politicians, among them Kennedy, Nixon, and Reagan, who all rode into the White House by hawking 'the end is near'"--Dust jacket flap.
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