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The One Who Dies With the Most Toys -- Is Just as Dead!
Author Attacks Material Culture in Groundbreaking New Book
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August 1998 - WASILLA, ALASKA: Every once in a while, a book comes along that can change the entire way society thinks. From Martin Luther to Harriet Beecher Stowe to Rachel Carson, and more recently, such authors as Christopher Lasch (Culture of Narcissism), John Naisbitt (Megatrends), and Alvin Toffler (Future Shock) have had a deep and lasting impact. Every thinking person needs to be familiar with the work of these writers. Into this select group, from a small town in remote and rugged Alaska, comes a new contender: Charles D. Hayes and his new book, Beyond the American Dream: Lifelong Learning and the Search for Meaning in a Postmodern World.
Exhaustively researched-the 24-page bibliography cites authors as diverse as Aristotle, Emerson, Einstein, Kant, Stephen Covey, Mario Cuomo, Deborah Tannen, Peter Drucker, Will Durant, Erich Fromm, Al Gore, Cornell West, Abraham Maslow, Jack London, and Gail Sheehy-this new and dramatic work explodes myth after myth of American society. Hayes is thoroughly unconventional and also unabashedly liberal; he makes the case that the materialist era is ending and a new era is dawning in America: the era of multicultural accommodation and lifelong learning.
"It is an inspiration to hear from someone who both cherishes and exemplifies independent thinking. A brilliant and moving work."
-- Philip Slater, author, The Pursuit of Loneliness
"In a world of flabby, fragmentary, and postmodernist thinking, Hayes offers a glowing tribute to old-fashioned curiosity and reason."
-- Barbara Ehrenreich, author, Fear of Falling, Blood Rites
Beyond the American Dream is not a quick and easy read. Rather, it's a probing, intense examination of the entire American society: race relations and affirmative action (he's a strong proponent), environmental issues, fallacies of the New Age movement. It's a book that will be talked about for years to come. Release is set for Self-University Week, September 1-7, 1998.
For review copies, please use the contact information shown below.
Nancy Frey
Autodidactic Press
907-376-2932
autpress@alaska.net
http://www.autodidactic.com
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