Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of MemoryBloomsbury Academic, 28 de fev. de 2000 - 192 páginas According to Bertman, just as an individual needs memories to maintain a sense of personal identity, so does a nation need them in order to survive. Like Alzheimer victims, however, today's Americans are rapidly losing a consciousness of history, and with it, a sense of national identity and direction. |
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... half the students would have failed . 16 By 1994 , the year that marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Normandy invasion , fewer than half the American adults who were polled remembered that Dwight Eisenhower had been the Allied Forces ...
... half knew that containing Communism was the primary goal of U.S. foreign policy from 1945 to 1990.21 In another poll - a survey of students attending Harvard , Yale , Princeton , Brown , Dartmouth , and the University of ...
... Half of Adults in U.S. Can't Read or Handle Arith- metic , " New York Times , September 9 , 1993 , A1 and 16 , national edition . For reac- tions to the survey , see " Educators Say New Direction and Resources Are Needed to Raise ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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