Haynes Johnson "Divided We Fall: Gambling With History in the Nineties."
The best-selling author of "Sleepwalking Through History" draws on interviews with Americans across the country to explore contemporary concerns about such issues as: crime, unemployment, education, race relations, values, and more.
Everywhere he went he encountered rising cynicism, alienation from politics and institutions, fear over the economic future, concern with violent crime, volatile ethnic and racial tensions. This sobering report warns that with massive cutbacks in funding for schools, hospitals and social welfare programs, more and more people are falling through a "safety net" rent with gaping holes. Johnson's odyssey culminates in an interview with President Clinton which reads like a canned speech.
Among the more disturbing trends Johnson cited are a tendency toward even more racial and cultural disunity, and an obsession with short-term results at the expense of long-range planning.
W.W. Norton & Co Inc; First Edition, 1994.
Hardcover with DJ.
New book. Book in very good visual and excellent technical condition.