{"product_id":"a-nation-gone-blind-america-in-an-age-of-simplification-and-deceit-paperback","title":"A Nation Gone Blind: America in an Age of Simplification and Deceit - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric Larsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerica's citizens seem plagued by despair and frustration, much deeper today than the \"malaise\" President Jimmy Carter noted twenty years ago. Our political and social cultures are driven by issues morally complex and yet presented with simple-minded hostility. What's the matter with Kansas? What has happened to the once proud leader of the free world? How secure is our future? Does the republic stand or have we lost it already? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in 1941, novelist, critic, and teacher Eric Larsen sees his own lifetime as paralleling the arc of a national dissolution, and in three penetrating essays he describes an increasingly desperate situation. A blindness has set in, he argues, producing writers no longer able to write, professors more harmful than helpful, a replacement virtually nation-wide of \u003ci\u003ethinking\u003c\/i\u003e with \u003ci\u003efeeling\u003c\/i\u003e while the population seems unable to grasp even the remotest outlines of such dangerous, radical change. In the tradition of George Orwell, Upton Sinclair, Paul Goodman, and Christopher Lasch, Larsen offers an impassioned critique of where we once were, where we are, and where we're very soon going if we don't watch out.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Larsen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003eAn American Memory\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eI Am Zoë Handke\u003c\/i\u003e. Retired after teaching English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice for more than thirty years, he lives in Manhattan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.89 x 8.7 x 5.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 29, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52636187427123,"sku":"9781593760984","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/64ZitSFu3l9781593760984.webp?v=1762267952","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/a-nation-gone-blind-america-in-an-age-of-simplification-and-deceit-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}