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- catalog abstract ""Indecent Liberties examines why Americans have a penchant for going to extremes in their arts, popular culture, politics, social movements, and other aspects of life. Robert Schmuhl considers historical examples (the hunting of the buffalo in the West, Prohibition, business ventures in the Gilded Age) but concentrates on contemporary subjects, including the emphasis on what shocks the audience as entertainment today, tensions among specific groups, the decline of private life, and the excesses of news media coverage in the O.J. Simpson and Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky stories."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11237376.
- catalog coverage "United States Moral conditions.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Indecent Liberties examines why Americans have a penchant for going to extremes in their arts, popular culture, politics, social movements, and other aspects of life. Robert Schmuhl considers historical examples (the hunting of the buffalo in the West, Prohibition, business ventures in the Gilded Age) but concentrates on contemporary subjects, including the emphasis on what shocks the audience as entertainment today, tensions among specific groups, the decline of private life, and the excesses of news media coverage in the O.J. Simpson and Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky stories."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-148).".
- catalog description "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Excess -- The Unsettling of America -- America and Multiculturalism -- Allies or Enemies? The Uneasy Relationship between Blacks and Jews -- Running Scared -- Coping with Hyperdemocracy and Hypercommunications -- Being President When Anything Goes -- Seeking Equilibrium and a Center That Holds.".
- catalog extent "148 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0268012164 (cl. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Moral conditions.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "306/.0973 21".
- catalog subject "HN90.M6 S349 2000".
- catalog subject "Hyperbole Social aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "Liberty Social aspects United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Excess -- The Unsettling of America -- America and Multiculturalism -- Allies or Enemies? The Uneasy Relationship between Blacks and Jews -- Running Scared -- Coping with Hyperdemocracy and Hypercommunications -- Being President When Anything Goes -- Seeking Equilibrium and a Center That Holds.".
- catalog title "Indecent liberties / Robert Schmuhl.".
- catalog type "text".