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Sheldon Sanford Wolin was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 4, 1922. During World War II, he served as a bombardier and navigator in the Pacific for the Army Air Forces. He received a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College in 1946 and a doctorate from Harvard University in 1950. He taught at the näytä lisää University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University before retiring in 1987. He wrote several books during his lifetime including Hobbes and the Epic Tradition of Political Theory, Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life, and Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism. Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought was published in 1960, received the Benjamin E. Lippincott Award in recognition of its lasting impact in 1985, and was reissued in expanded form in 2004. He also wrote frequently for The New York Review of Books on Watergate, Henry Kissinger, the presidency of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and American conservatism. Some of his essays on the Free Speech Movement and campus unrest at Berkeley were included with those written by John H. Schaar in The Berkeley Rebellion and Beyond: Essays on Politics and Education in the Technological Society. He died on October 21, 2015 at the age of 93. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän

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Unknown California (1985) — Avustaja — 41 kappaletta
Vocations of Political Theory (2000) — Avustaja — 13 kappaletta
The New Salmagundi Reader (1996) — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta

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This is a staggeringly detailed look at the destruction of any real democracy in the United States. I came at this book after having come across Chris Hedges ( without doubt the most important contemporary author writing about America in 2019)writing about it. One can see that if one had read the book during the mid 2000s when it originally appeared, it would have seemed apocalyptic in it's warnings. Sadly, Wolin pretty much hits it right on the head: democracy in America is a shallow, money beholden to huge corporations and rich people reality. The only thing that seems quaintly antiquated is when he attempts to differentiate between the Republican and Democratic national political parties, as is now obvious, they are all one big 'pro business' party for the rich.… (lisätietoja)
 
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AlanGilbert | 7 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 26, 2019 |
I could have written this ( except for the off-kilter chapter nine ) A lot of typographical / punctuationaly errors ( using voice dication software ? ) Overall however, ' inverted totalitarianism ' is what I was calling ' Fascism lite ' , ' Nerf Fascism ', or ' I Can't Beleive It's Not Fascism ! '.
 
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Baku-X | 7 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 10, 2017 |
The author provides an acerbic and critical analysis of modern American politics and the Republican party in particular. He discusses the interlocking of American government with big business. This includes campaign finance and fraud, personnel exchange between the public and private sectors, economic segregation at universities and the renunciation of social welfare in favor of military spending. It all amounts to a depressing portrait of a plutocracy run by greedy billionaires for the benefit of a small elite. The author draws at some length on the history of democracy and the history of political thought to build his case.

Although there are flashes of brilliance in this book, there are also bad ideas and a lot of unclear writing. A particularly bad idea is the comparison of American politics to Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes, a comparison which just doesn't make any sense. The author fortunately lets go of this forced parallel towards the end of the book. He also has an idiosyncratic writing style which is quite undisciplined. He exaggerates and overextends some parts of his argument so strongly that it's hard to know how seriously one should take the other parts. The discussion is often confusing and seems overly pessimistic.

I can therefore not recommend this book unreservedly. The underlying idea might be both valid and critically important for the fate of democracy in the 21st century, but the author doesn't possess enough intellectual ability to carry his ambitious critical project to a convincing completion. Fukuyama's recent book "Political Order and Political Decay" is a stronger work on a similar subject with a broad international scope.
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thcson | 7 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Nov 2, 2015 |
I could have written this ( except for the off-kilter chapter nine ) A lot of typographical / punctuationaly errors ( using voice dication software ? ) Overall however, ' inverted totalitarianism ' is what I was calling ' Fascism lite ' , ' Nerf Fascism ', or ' I Can't Beleive It's Not Fascism ! '.
 
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BakuDreamer | 7 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Sep 7, 2013 |

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