About this title: Analyzes the gradual erosion of American identity over the recent decades because of bilingualism, multiculturalism, and other factors and explores signs of a revival of American identity in the wake of September 11th.
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Description: Good. 0684870541 Paperback, Condition: Good; somewhat worn, with some underlining/highlightling within; will work well as a reading copy. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2005-11-29
ISBN-13:9780684870540ISBN:0684870541
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2005-11-29
ISBN-13:9780684870540ISBN:0684870541
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780684870533ISBN:0684870533
Description: Fair in Good dust jacket. 0684870533. 1.5 x 9.3 x 6.3 Inches; 448 pages; Pages good except for underlining/margin marks, writing on both end pgs; soiling on pg block. DJ has shelf and edge wear; scratches. Quick shipping w/delivery confirmation; bubble mailers. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780684870533ISBN:0684870533
Description: Near Fine / Very Good Jacket. 2004 Simon & Schuster. First Edition. First printing. Full number line on verso. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has blue textured paper-covered boards with white paper-covered spine and silver spine lettering. Binding tight. Book is in excellent condition with only a hint of shelf wear at the spine ends. Name in ink on front free endpaper. Small smudge on fore edges of pages. Pages clean and unmarked. 428 pages. Dust jacket has very light edge and ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2005-11-29
ISBN-13:9780684870540ISBN:0684870541
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780684870540. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S. A
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780684870533ISBN:0684870533
Description: Advance Uncorrected Proof. Pictorial trade wraps. 408pp. Extensive Notes. The author "turns his attention...to the cultural rift in our. country. " Fine. Book. read more
Edition: 1st Edition 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York, NY
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780684870533ISBN:0684870533
Description: Fine/Fine. W/Dust Jacket 428pp(Index) Clean, tight & bright. No ink names, tears, chips, foxing etc. Price unclipped. ISBN 0684870533. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2005-05-03
ISBN-13:9780684866697ISBN:0684866692
Description: Very Good. Paperback in very good condition with light shelf wear. Text appears unmarked. No ownership markings. No spine creases. Light moisture affects on back corner of book. _ read more
"I am a Huntington fan. This book is the magnum opus of a teacher-scholar that closes a distinguished career.
This book identifies the virtues [not just plain values as moderns like to think of them] that have distinguished the United States of America from Old Europe and other nations over the last two centuries.
What is immensely appealing about this book is the fact that Huntington is not bashful when it comes to identifying specifically those distinctive virtues that have made America a great Nation, and the cultural requirements that make nations great.
Culture, Anglo-Saxon Culture, is essential, as the author points out, and thus that means our present distraction with political correctness finds no ledge on which to stand. PC talk is equivalent to standing in mid-air and not expecting to fall.
This work is important especially now, since we have been lead to believe that importing populations from troubled spots in the world, i.e, the Middle East and Eastern Africa and others who have made a complete mess of their homelands, will somehow turn out to be a stroke of genius, and build a new world order.
Huntington, while he does not deal directly with these comments, he makes it abundantly clear that if the American culture fails, as it is, then the essential nature of America will be discarded in favor of a hodge-podge of competing and vocal and often violent groups who bring their own culture and mores with them, and seek to impose these on America.
On the other hand, if one reads a broad spectrum of newspapers [Wall Street Journal and Financial Times and some other papers] and is alert to news via the Internet and radio but not TV [because TV news is to sell a product or service, and the news is merely clips], then, Huntington's book will put a refreshing focus on the passing news scene.
The passing news scene is what eventually will constitute part of history if future historians are honest, and not revisionists.
Huntington enables the reader to sort the grain of wheat from the layers of chaff of passing modernity, the pop themes and culture of this day.
I enthusiastically recommend engaging this book, with one hand on the newspaper and the other hand on this book.
James A. Glasscock
Longdrycreek Ranch
Texas Panhandle"
"This book was interesting, but I really struggled with the author's implication that American identity is entirely based on our WASP founders and that we must work to preserve/protect it from encroaching multiculturalism..."
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