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  <title><![CDATA[The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations]]></title>
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  <default_description>When &lt;i&gt;The Culture of Narcissism&lt;/i&gt; was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important: what was happening to American society in the wake of the decline of the family over the last century. The book quickly became a bestseller. This edition includes a new afterword, &quot;The Culture of Narcissim Revisited.&quot;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1979</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Christopher Lasch]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 22 17:38:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 22 17:46:41 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book as a used hardbound at a musty converted industrial space in Morristown NJ some time around 1996.  I tried to start reading it then, found it annoying, put it down.  Three months ago, about 13 years later, I picked it up again and found it fascinating.  What had changed in the mea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60703151">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Oct 24 09:58:37 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This hyper-technical book about the psychology of the current state of the Selfish Union has been really, really hard for me to get into. But I'm wading along, hopefully learning something about you, me and everyone we know.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Jul 12 03:21:55 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 12 05:24:11 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading A Conscious Life written I was starving for more information on this concept of social evolution in the U.S. as described by the Fran an Louis Cox.  I began to search for something that would describe the rise and methodology involved with this new form of social engineering that was p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27022131">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Emily]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[generation X and Y]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue May 13 10:51:34 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes I felt the author was trying too hard to write complex words, but nonetheless, the meaning behind his writing was enlightening. Some of the comments Lasch writes, I do not agree with and find them a far stretch to explain the complexity of our generation or even human nature. <br/><br/>I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10927658">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5290523">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 29 08:57:37 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 29 09:12:16 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is referred to a lot, so I decided to check it out.  It is an insightful look into American culture and, I think, ahead of its time.  (1973) Most books like this lose relevancy as soon as the age passes in which they were written.  For the most part, this has not.  It's Freudian presupposi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5290523">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43767713">
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  <date_added>Tue Jan 20 20:23:23 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 11 19:11:37 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably Lasch's most famous work, this is also, I think, the most easily misunderstood. The titular &quot;narcissism&quot; is decidedly not vanity; Narcissus's fatal weakness was not the admiration of his reflection, but his inability to tell where his reflection ended and his face started. <em>The Min...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43767713">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65394814">
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 1984</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 29 08:06:47 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 29 08:08:59 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Christopher Lasch was a powerful social philosopher deeply concerned with the effect of social changes on a personal level moving through and changing society. This book deals with our North American shifting views of the family and given that it was originally written in the 1970s has a remarkably ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65394814">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42505954">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lasch makes lots of claims that seem difficult to really support (or refute) but he does it with such provocative eloquence that one has to forgive him. A fairly bold and big claim about how the culture of America has morphed to the point that it is best described as a psychological condition.]]></body>
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    <review id="34826946">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lasch was ahead of his time. If this book were written in the new millennium, then I would be inclined to think it was contrived, but it was written in the seventies. Lasch has proven to be as prognostic as Ayn Rand.<br/><br/>I usually dislike any recourse to psychology, since it is not really a s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34826946">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62279190">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jul 05 19:58:30 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book WAAAY ahead of its time.<br/>Could have been written yesterday.]]></body>
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    <review id="57429836">
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  <date_added>Tue May 26 17:41:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[america.]]></body>
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    <review id="40980591">
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    <name><![CDATA[Drew]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Dec 26 20:57:00 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been teaching an essay of Lasch's, &quot;The Lost Art of Argument,&quot; for a couple semesters now, and so my love for that essay led me to picking up this book.  Surprisingly easy to read, this book takes a very serious look at the narcissistic nature of american culture spread across the ent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40980591">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16326888">
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    <name><![CDATA[Chuck]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Feb 25 11:25:39 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was written in 1979, but the author's complaints with society are pretty evergreen; they could still be made now, but I suspect they also could have been made in 1579. He really wants to enforce (inflict?) his personal morality and politics on other people, which is problematic. ]]></body>
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    <review id="23005101">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lyle]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Fabulous book that really captures what our society is turning into--be afraid, be very afraid.]]></body>
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    <review id="22516222">
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    <name><![CDATA[mike]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Christopher Lasch, even if I don't always agree with him. ]]></body>
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    <review id="19952213">
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    <body><![CDATA[I would give this book five stars but there was not enough about me in it.]]></body>
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