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The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

byRoss Douthat

Ross Douthat uses The Decadent Society to investigate how We Became the Victims of Our Own Success through a carefully framed historical account. By tracing causes alongside consequences, the narrative gives readers both a grounded account and a route into the connected fields of history and political science. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention.

Publisher

Avid Reader Press / Simon Schuster

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

258

ISBN

9781476785240