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New York : Simon & Schuster, c2004.
Description
A social critique of middle-class America notes the pervasiveness of barbecue grills, supermoms, suburban restaurant chains, and other elements, identifying the motivations that prompt many people to strive for fantasy-based goals.
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LibraryThing member carterchristian1
I watch Brooks regularly on the public television program on Fridays and really like him. Then came a 3 hour interview that intensified this feeling. Conservative or not (and he was a Buckley protege, the high point of his life) he is usually pretty practica. This is an excellent book explaining
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our consumer obsessed economy. As one Amazon reviewer described the book."On Paradise Drive provides blow after blow against our ultra-consumer, extra-large SUV, monster house, I think I like these books because I like reading about my fellow Americans, and ...let's face it...I wouldn't have us any other way. Show Less