The de-moralization of society: from Victorian virtues to modern values

Gertrude Himmelfarb, like so many Americans, is appalled by crime, drug addiction, illiteracy, juvenile delinquency, illegitimacy and welfare dependency. The solution she proposes, in this follow-up to her much-praised On Looking into the Abyss, is as simple as it is radical - and has the further ad...

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1. Verfasser: Himmelfarb, Gertrude 1922-2019 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Knopf 1995
Ausgabe:4. print.
Schriftenreihe:A Borzoi book
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Zusammenfassung:Gertrude Himmelfarb, like so many Americans, is appalled by crime, drug addiction, illiteracy, juvenile delinquency, illegitimacy and welfare dependency. The solution she proposes, in this follow-up to her much-praised On Looking into the Abyss, is as simple as it is radical - and has the further advantage of solid historical substantiation. We must look back on the Victorians with open minds; they must cease to irk us. And then, Himmelfarb hopes, we can begin to learn from them.
Beschreibung:X, 314 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:0679438173

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