William J. Bennett "The De-Valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children."
A provocative and personal study of the crisis in American values discusses the problem of educational standards, drugs, AIDS, and sex education; racial strife; the controversy over values; and the debate on affirmative action and quotas.
This memoir of Bennett's trials and tribulations as chairperson of the National Endowment for the Humanities, secretary of the Department of Education, and directorate ("Drug Czar") of the National Drug Control Policy. The interest here is not specifically with the substance of what he said and wrote, but how he attempted to move insiders, bureaucrats, lobbyists, and the media to his way of thinking. Bennett habitually encapsulates all issues in the liberal/conservative dichotomy. In typical statements Bennett points out what he feels is right and wrong with American society and posits solutions. Conservatives―and Bennett supporters―will find this title fascinating. Liberals and thinkers will find it exasperating, irritating--maybe even enlightening.
Hardcover. 1992.
New book. Very minor shelf wear from rubbing.