The End of Sanity:: Social and Cultural Madness in America

by Martin L. Gross

At the University of Pennsylvania, separate dorms have been set up for minorities in the name of racial harmony. In New Jersey, dentists who are HIV positive do not have to tell their patients despite the proven risk of infection. Grades are so inflated at Harvard that 84% of the students recently graduated with honors. Among women soldiers returning on a troop ship from Desert Storm, one in ten was pregnant. And these absurdities are but a few of the end products of a rampant social madness that threatens our nation--thanks, according to author Martin L. Gross, to a dangerous "New Establishment" of educators, judges, bureaucrats and military leaders who have consigned the concepts that have made America great to the cultural scrap heap. In his most explosive and powerfully reasoned work to date, Gross exposes the roots of a crisis that heralds the end of sanity in American life, and offers cogent remedies that can reverse the damage already done, and lead our society toward a greater, saner tomorrow.

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Dennis Fay · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this while attending a very liberal Cal. State campus many years ago!! This book really helped me point out the mistakes and misrepresentations of several of my socialist (literally) professors! A MUST read if you really want to see where our country is heading!

Anything by Martin L. Gross is eye opening and interesting!

[Jess · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was published in 1997 and I can’t begin to fathom how Mr. Martin L. Gross feels about the culture now. It’s gotten so out of hand! And while others who read this book said they felt the author didn’t have facts, did they check the End Notes section where he gave all his citations? We may not want to believe this is what has happened in America, but it has.

The passage below, starting on page 308, sums up the general theme of the book quite nicely, in my opinion.

“In the 1940s, 1950s, and through most of the 1960s, the community was key. Through free speech and social criticism, people expressed their opposition to conformity, which provided a natural balance in democracy. The outsider had to fight for space in the consciousness of the nation. This is as it should be.

Today, it is quite the opposite. The outsider-victim is at the helm, in charge of what people are supposed to think and do. In today’s Dominant Culture, it is the everyday American and his spokespeople who have to fight for space in the collective psyche. This is not as it should be.

From conformity to the majority, we now have conformity to the minority, which in democratic terms is rank totalitarianism.”

[James Spada · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is great. I dont think its completely true but it made some solid exaggerations.

[Desiree Finkbeiner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some very interesting viewpoints here, though most of it was just strong opinion. Some facts and statistics to back up his arguments, but mostly just introducing views that you may not have thought of otherwise

[Eric · Rating 3 out of 5]

How PC, feminism, immigration, etc, are eviscerating the American body politic. (It is not yet clear whether, or how badly, he overstated the case for his premises.)