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The Center of European Languages of Qom(Ale Beit Publications)
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BL
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594
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b10288
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| Language of Document
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English
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| Main Entry
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Hollander, Paul, 1932
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The only superpower:reflections on strength, weakness, and anti-Americanism/ Paul Hollander
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| Publication Statement
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Lanham, MD: Lexington Books,, c2009.
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ix, 291 p.: ; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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9780739125434(cloth : alk.paper)
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| Notes
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Print
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The new anti-Americanism -- Anti-Americanism and a world-class hate crime -- Anti-Americanism: murderous and rhetorical -- The politics of envy -- Anti-Americanism and moral equivalence -- Our society and its celebrities -- Watching celebrities -- Michael Moore: new political celebrity -- SUVs and Americans -- The chronic ailments of television news -- Stereotyping and the decline of common sense -- Tawana Brawley and the "exotic dancer" at Duke -- An Islamic requirement on campus -- Rehabilitating the great books: literature and life -- The counterculture of the heart -- Old and busier than ever -- American travelers to the Soviet Union -- Alexander Yakovlev -- Violence of higher purpose -- The North Korean gulag -- Admiring North Korea -- The fiftieth anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution -- Crossing the moral threshold: the rejection of communist systems in Eastern Europe -- Ambivalent in Amsterdam -- Travel in the Peloponnesos -- The resilience of the adversary culture -- The Chomsky phenomenon -- The banality of evil and the political culture of hatred -- The left and the Palestinians -- The personal and the political in Lessing's fiction -- Haven in Cuba -- Demystifying Marxism -- Public intellectuals and the God that failed -- From a "builder of socialism" to "free-floating intellectual": my politically incorrect career in sociology.
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United StatesCivilization--21st century
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United StatesSocial conditions--21st century
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United StatesRelations
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Political cultureUnited States
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Anti-Americanism
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| Dewey Classification
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973.931
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| LC Classification
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E169.12.H637 2009
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