Age of Folly: America Abandons Its Democracy. by. Lewis H. Lapham. · Rating details · 84 ratings · 13 reviews. America’s leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terror. In twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles of democracy/5. · “[Illustrates] how and why our democracy has given way to a dysfunctional plutocracy of the super-rich, by the super-rich, and for the super-rich. Taken together, the book’s essays, published between 19in Lapham’s Quarterly and Harper’s, serve as a powerful and alarming American history With Age of Folly, Lapham provides the historical context needed to understand . In twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles of democracy. The self-glorifying march of folly steps off at the end of the Cold War, in an era when delusions of omnipotence allowed the market to climb to virtual heights, while society was divided between the selfish and frightened rich and the increasingly debt-ridden and angry poor/5(24).
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