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Everything you should knowbut PC professors wont teachabout Western heritage.
Western civilization is the envy of the globe. It has given to the world universally accepted understandings of human rights (rooted in Judeo-Christian principles), created standards for art, music, and literature that have never been equaled, and originated political and social systems that have spread all across the planet.
Political correctness now obscures these and other truths about Western civilization. Leftists and Islamic jihadists find common cause in assailing Western colonialism, imperialism, and racism as its defining characteristics. Guilt-ridden Western leaders and public figures speak of their cultural patrimony in disparaging terms they would never dare to use about a non-Western culture. And in universities, multicultural-minded professors flatter students into believing they have nothing really to learn from Sophocles or Shakespeare.
But now, Professor Anthony Esolenone of the team-teachers of Providence Colleges esteemed Development of Western Civilization Core Curriculumhas risen to the Wests defense. The Politically Incorrect Guide(TM) to Western Civilization takes on the prevailing liberal assumptions that make Western civilization the universal whipping boy for todays global problems and introduces you to the significant events, individuals, nations, ideas, and artistic achievements that make Western civilization the greatest the world has ever known.
Today, defending the West has become an urgent imperative: if we dont value what we have and what we have inherited, we will surely lose it. The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Western Civilization is an essential sourcebook for that defense.
Author: Anthony Esolen
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 05/27/2008
Series: Politically Incorrect Guides (Paperback)
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 8.96h x 7.25w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9781596980594
Language: English
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