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Article: Agonies of the Twitterati.(Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, Blackberry Moms, and Economic Anxiety)(Book review)
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- The American Prospect
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- March 1, 2009
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ELSEWHERE, U.S.A.: HOW WE GOT FROM THE COMPANY MAN, FAMILY DINNERS, AND THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY TO THE HOME OFFICE, BLACKBERRY MOMS, AND ECONOMIC ANXIETY BY DALTON CONLEY, Pantheon, 221 pages, $24.00
THE CRITICS OF MODERNITY, GOING back at least to the 19th century, have told us that modern society is hurtling forward, its social ties unraveling behind it, its citizens left unhinged and bewildered. In recent decades, disintegration has remained a persistent image in popular social criticism, from Alvin Toffler's Future Shock and Philip Slater's The Pursuit of Loneliness (both published in 1970) to more current entrants such as Judith Warner's 2005 book Perfect ...
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