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- catalog abstract "Using the latest social, economic, attitudinal, and demographic data, this book tells us where we've been, where we are, and where we are going. This upbeat and incisive look at American life will surprise the doomsayers and encourage everyone who is looking for the facts instead of the myths about the state of the union promoted by the media. -- Book Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b340112.
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 1980-".
- catalog created "c1984.".
- catalog date "1984".
- catalog date "c1984.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1984.".
- catalog description "Cameo: cocktails at Claude's (prelude) -- Neon numbers fighting Typhoid Mary (the thesis and plan of the book) -- Part I: Quality of life. Us as enemy (the environmental argument) -- Cameo: an epidemic of life (cancer rates) -- Living longer (adult life expectancy) -- Cameo: the other drug culture (pharmacological progress) -- Living healthier (consumerism, danger, new products) -- What we've done (environmental progress) -- Heroes and villains (case histories: cars, alcohol, smoking) -- Cameo: Bill and Mary and their kids (model demographics) -- The birth dearth (fertility) -- Cameo: Jews and Mormons (projecting birthrates) -- Cameo: greengrocers and college graduates (the new immigrants) -- The first universal nation (immigration) -- Running out? (resources) -- A new frontier (geographical mobility) -- An Argument disowned (materialism) -- Getting the wrong story right (media and the environment) -- ".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Part II: Standard of living. Cameo: economic chitchat at Claude's (What's wrong with the economy?) -- Welcome to the world of Ditroi (macroeconomic overview) -- Cameo: two simple proofs (consumer expenditures) -- Measuring apples and lizards (income) -- Poor-mouthing (the politics of poverty) -- Recession on the nightly news (unemployment) -- Cameo: Gramps tells it like it is (income and older Americans) -- They never had it so good (the elderly) -- The movement and the motion (Women) -- Cameo: tape expert (era of limits?) -- Split-level super numbers (housing) -- War games (education) -- A Rising tide (Blacks) -- Cameo: Claude's mother (commercial innovation) -- Where there's smoke, there's smoke (business) -- The Rest of the world (international progress) -- Part III: Values. Cameo: Chuck Cleeshay's barbecue (eroding ethics) -- In God we trust (religion) -- No nuclear meltdown (family) -- The Sexual evolution (sex and permissiveness) -- ".
- catalog description "Using the latest social, economic, attitudinal, and demographic data, this book tells us where we've been, where we are, and where we are going. This upbeat and incisive look at American life will surprise the doomsayers and encourage everyone who is looking for the facts instead of the myths about the state of the union promoted by the media. -- Book Jacket.".
- catalog description "Working hard or hardly working? (the work ethic) -- Getting tougher (crime) -- Part IV: Politics. Cameo: playing politics at Claude's (grumbling about government) -- What hardly happened (voting patterns) -- What did happen (expanding participation) -- Cameo: the case of the morose member (the view from the House) -- Do-it-yourself democracy--I (political process) -- Do-it-yourself democracy--II (ideas and issues) -- Cameo: Claude meets the consultants (tactical politics in the Eighties) -- Permissive patriotism saving the world (epilogue to values and politics) -- Part V: Media. The Bad news bias (negativism in the media) -- Ever thus? (historical perspective) -- Is the bad news bad for us? (possible implications) --- Cameo: cornering the anchorman(summary conversation).".
- catalog extent "431 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Good news is the bad news is wrong.".
- catalog identifier "0671475452".
- catalog isFormatOf "Good news is the bad news is wrong.".
- catalog issued "1984".
- catalog issued "c1984.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Simon and Schuster,".
- catalog relation "Good news is the bad news is wrong.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 1980-".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Cost and standard of living United States.".
- catalog subject "HN60 .W37 1984".
- catalog subject "Quality of life United States.".
- catalog subject "Social indicators United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Cameo: cocktails at Claude's (prelude) -- Neon numbers fighting Typhoid Mary (the thesis and plan of the book) -- Part I: Quality of life. Us as enemy (the environmental argument) -- Cameo: an epidemic of life (cancer rates) -- Living longer (adult life expectancy) -- Cameo: the other drug culture (pharmacological progress) -- Living healthier (consumerism, danger, new products) -- What we've done (environmental progress) -- Heroes and villains (case histories: cars, alcohol, smoking) -- Cameo: Bill and Mary and their kids (model demographics) -- The birth dearth (fertility) -- Cameo: Jews and Mormons (projecting birthrates) -- Cameo: greengrocers and college graduates (the new immigrants) -- The first universal nation (immigration) -- Running out? (resources) -- A new frontier (geographical mobility) -- An Argument disowned (materialism) -- Getting the wrong story right (media and the environment) -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part II: Standard of living. Cameo: economic chitchat at Claude's (What's wrong with the economy?) -- Welcome to the world of Ditroi (macroeconomic overview) -- Cameo: two simple proofs (consumer expenditures) -- Measuring apples and lizards (income) -- Poor-mouthing (the politics of poverty) -- Recession on the nightly news (unemployment) -- Cameo: Gramps tells it like it is (income and older Americans) -- They never had it so good (the elderly) -- The movement and the motion (Women) -- Cameo: tape expert (era of limits?) -- Split-level super numbers (housing) -- War games (education) -- A Rising tide (Blacks) -- Cameo: Claude's mother (commercial innovation) -- Where there's smoke, there's smoke (business) -- The Rest of the world (international progress) -- Part III: Values. Cameo: Chuck Cleeshay's barbecue (eroding ethics) -- In God we trust (religion) -- No nuclear meltdown (family) -- The Sexual evolution (sex and permissiveness) -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Working hard or hardly working? (the work ethic) -- Getting tougher (crime) -- Part IV: Politics. Cameo: playing politics at Claude's (grumbling about government) -- What hardly happened (voting patterns) -- What did happen (expanding participation) -- Cameo: the case of the morose member (the view from the House) -- Do-it-yourself democracy--I (political process) -- Do-it-yourself democracy--II (ideas and issues) -- Cameo: Claude meets the consultants (tactical politics in the Eighties) -- Permissive patriotism saving the world (epilogue to values and politics) -- Part V: Media. The Bad news bias (negativism in the media) -- Ever thus? (historical perspective) -- Is the bad news bad for us? (possible implications) --- Cameo: cornering the anchorman(summary conversation).".
- catalog title "The good news is the bad news is wrong / Ben J. Wattenberg.".
- catalog type "text".