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Also by Morris Berman:

Dark Ages America, April 2006
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The Twilight of American Culture, June 2001
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DARK AGES AMERICA
By: Morris Berman

The Final Phase of Empire

W. W. Norton
April 2006
On Sale: April 11, 2006
416 pages
ISBN: 0393058662
EAN: 9780393058666
Hardcover
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An honest and unflinching look at the final phase of the American empire, and the sources of our decline.

The Twilight of American Culture appeared in 2000 like a thunderbolt, warning that America's corporate culture and rampant materialism would set of an international counter-response. In his new work, Morris Berman discusses the coming collapse of the American economy, the erosion of democratic ideals, and the emergence of a "seamless propaganda machine" that has destroyed popular discourse to the point that we now dwell in a miasma of propagandistic fog. Berman's central point is that it is the specific details of the way we live—our values and daily behavior—that have brought about this state of affairs, from which there can be no return.

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