Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged Book

In the American political vocabulary, "family" and "family values" no longer simply evoke pictures of harmonious scenes; they also push our buttons (left and right) about what is wrong with society. One of the earliest and sharpest cultural commentators to investigate the twentieth-century American family, Christopher Lasch argues in this book that as social science "experts" intrude more and more into our lives, the family's vital role as the moral and social cornerstone of society disintegrates—and, left unchecked, so does our political and personal freedom. Mr. Lasch combines an analytic overview of the psychological and sociological literature on the American family with his own trenchant analysis of where the problem lies. Read More

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  • 0393313034
  • 9780393313031
  • Christopher Lasch
  • 20 September 1995
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
  • New edition
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