From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion to the largely unexamined myth of egalitarianism lies at the heart of the ongoing "dumbing of America."
Americans have always stubbornly clung to the myth of egalitarianism, of the supremacy of the individual average man. But here, at long last, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic William A. Henry III takes on, and debunks, some basic, fundamentally ingrained ideas: that everyone is pretty much alike (and should be); that self-fulfillment is more imortant thant objective achievement; that everyone has something significant to contribute; that all cultures offer something equally worthwhile; that a truly just society would automatically produce equal success results across lines of race, class, and gender; and that the common man is almost always right. Henry makes clear, in a book full of vivid examples and unflinching opinions, that while these notions are seductively democratic they are also hopelessly wrong.
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话说前几日在浙北小城，淘得一册小书——《为精英主义辩护》。匆匆翻完，倒是颇为有趣。 手头上这本是2000年译林的版子，译者是胡利平，是“万花筒译丛”中的译本。译者胡利平出身外交官家庭，1977年考入了北京外国语学院英语系，毕业后又考上了北外的“联合国译训班”，随后成...
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评分话说前几日在浙北小城，淘得一册小书——《为精英主义辩护》。匆匆翻完，倒是颇为有趣。 手头上这本是2000年译林的版子，译者是胡利平，是“万花筒译丛”中的译本。译者胡利平出身外交官家庭，1977年考入了北京外国语学院英语系，毕业后又考上了北外的“联合国译训班”，随后成...
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A powerful defense for elites and noblemen .
评分非常极端 论述有点混乱 但是扎心的东西才痛才深刻
评分非常极端 论述有点混乱 但是扎心的东西才痛才深刻
评分非常极端 论述有点混乱 但是扎心的东西才痛才深刻
评分非常极端 论述有点混乱 但是扎心的东西才痛才深刻
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