The Wilding of America: Money, Mayhem, and the New American Dream (Contemporary Social Issues)
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The Wilding of America: Money, Mayhem, and the New American Dream (Contemporary Social Issues)

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The American Dream champions individualism.  But at what price?  In this timely revision of The Wilding of America, Charles Derber chronicles the latest incidents of "wilding" - extreme acts of self-interested violence and greed - that signal an eroding of the moral landscape of American society.  Despite this ever-increasing emphasis on individualism in Ame...more
Paperback, 206 pages
Published May 17th 2006 by Worth Publishers (first published 2003)
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Has he addressed the fact that the Central-Park-Jogger rapists were all acquitted? I mean... they were his thesis statement, no?
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