Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of Memory
- ISBN-10
- 027596230X
- ISBN-13
- 9780275962302
- Series
- Cultural Amnesia
- Category
- Social Science / General
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Author
- Stephen Bertman
Description
Explains how Americans' cultural forgetfulness is eating away at America's soul.
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- 2008-09-17
- 912 pages
- Ebook
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