The Great Disruption (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Francis Fukuyama
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Sociology
- Time of Work: 1963-1999
- Setting: The United States and Western Europe
- Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Social issues, Social life, 1980’s, Capitalism, 1990’s, Western Europe or western Europeans, Morality or morals
- Locales: Europe, United States
In the thirty years that followed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November of 1963, a profound disruption of postwar society, a plague of pathologies, may be said to have been visited upon the United States. The social order that took root after 1945 and seemed so solid in the 1950’s was shaken to the core by a succession of events and social trends that were already under way when the tragedy in Dallas exploded into the national consciousness. In hindsight, this event may appear to be a latter-day version of Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination in June, 1914, since...
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