| Description |
xi, 341 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
"Most of the contents of this book first appeared in City journal, published by The Manhattan Institute"--T.p. verso. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Arts and letters. The frivolity of evil ; A taste for danger ; Why Shakespeare is for all time ; Sex and the Shakespeare reader ; What's wrong with twinkling buttocks? ; The rage of Virginia Woolf ; How--and how not--to love mankind ; A neglected genius ; The dystopian imagination ; A lost art ; Gillray's ungloomy morality ; Trash, violence, and Versace: but is it art? -- Society and politics. What we have to lose ; How to read a society ; Why Havana had to die ; The uses of corruption ; The goddess of domestic tribulations ; The starving criminal ; Don't legalize drugs ; All sex, all the time ; Who killed childhood? ; A horror story ; The man who predicted the race riots ; When Islam breaks down ; The barbarians at the gates of Paris ; After empire. |
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Culture -- Philosophy.
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Social problems.
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Civilization, Modern.
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Dalrymple, Theodore.
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Physicians -- Great Britain.
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Prison physicians -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- 1945-
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| Added Title |
City journal (New York, N.Y.)
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| ISBN |
1566636434 (alk. paper) |
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9781566636438 (alk. paper) |
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9781566637213 (pbk.) |
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156663721X (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 271996315 |
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HAF 1566636434 |
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