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Josh | 13 comments Please add a print (i.e., non-Kindle, non-ebook) edition of this book, which currently has three separate e-versions in the Goodreads database but no print edition.

* Title: The End of the Experiment: The Rise of Cultural Elites and the Decline of America's Civic Culture
* Author(s) name(s): Stanley Rothman
* ISBN (or ASIN): 9781412862486
* Publisher: Routledge
* Publication Date Year: 2015
* Publication Date Month: December
* Publication Date Day: 30
* Page count: 258
* Format (such as paperback, hardcover, ebook, audiobook, etc): hardcover
* Description: The End of the Experiment ties together Stanley Rothman's theory of post-industrialism and his four decades of research on American politics and society. Rothman discusses the rise and fall of the New Left, the sixties' impact on America's cultural elites, and the emergence of new post-industrial humanistic values.

The first part of this book explains how cultural shifts in post-industrial society increased the influence of intellectuals and redefined America's core values. The second part examines how the shift in American social and cultural values led to a crisis of confidence in the American experiment. And in a final section, Rothman's contemporaries provide insight into his work, reflecting on his continued influence and his devotion to traditional liberalism.

Rothman presents a quantitative study of personality differences between traditional American elites and new cultural elites. Rothman argues that the experiment of America—as a new nation rooted in democracy, morality, and civic virtue—is being destroyed by a disaffected intellectual class opposed to traditional values.
* Link: https://www.routledge.com/The-End-of-...


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Emmy de Reus (nyneve) | 20401 comments A booklisting was already created on 2015-10-01, with a latest update by the amazon-catalog bot on Apr 21, 2023:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

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Josh | 13 comments I looked up the book literally four hours ago and found no such editions. I'm grateful to whoever linked the e-versions to the print versions on the back end in the meantime.


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