Not with a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline - Hardcover

Dalrymple, Theodore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1566637953 ISBN 13: 9781566637954

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, 2008

Synopsis

Theodore Dalrymple's brilliant new collection of writings follows on the extraordinary success of his earlier books, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It. No writer today is more adept and incisive in exploring the state of our culture and the ideas that are changing our ways of life. In Not with a Bang But a Whimper, he takes the measure of our cultural decline, with special attention to Britain-its bureaucratic muddle, oppressive welfare mentality, and aimless young-all pursued in the name of democracy and freedom. He shows how terrorism and the growing numbers of Muslim minorities have changed our public life. Also here are Mr. Dalrymple's trenchant observations on artists and ideologues, and on the treatment of criminals and the mentally disturbed, his area of medical interest.

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Review:

Mr. Dalrymple illuminates with great clarity and precision some of the most difficult problems of our times.--The Washington Times

Brilliant essays.--Conservative Book Club

Beautifully written, insightful, and often sad.--Neofusionist

About the Author:

Theodore Dalrymple is a British doctor and writer who has worked on four continents and has most recently practiced in a British inner-city hospital and prison. He is a contributing editor for City Journal in the United States and writes a column for the London Spectator. His earlier collections of essays, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It, have been widely praised.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1566637953
• ISBN 13: 9781566637954
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 266