Hotel America
Transforming commentaries on Government, Society, and Culture in American Life
Lapham, Lewis. Hotel America. New York: Verso, 1996.
Today, the idea of American democracy as a force of liberation abroad, in Iraq and in Afghanistan is almost universally accepted by both liberals and conservatives as a received truth, not merely a piece of skillfully crafted political rhetoric. But in Lewis Lapham's essay "Democracy in America?" The idea of a truly extant democratic system in America is posed as a question rather than as something to be accepted, and Lapham concludes that "the spirit of Democracy is becoming as defunct as Buffalo Bill" in the America to which he directs his essay. (10) Lapham stresses that because of a perceived unnecessary need for cohesion, in peacetime as well as wartime, and "not because of the malevolence or cunning of a foreign power (the Russians, the Japanese, the Colombian drug lords, Saddam Hussein), but because a majority of Americans apparently have come to think of democracy as a matter of consensus and parades, as if it were somehow easy, quiet, orderly and safe," democracy in America has become defunct....
Transformations in Lewis Lapham's Hotel America Lapham, Lewis. Hotel America. New York: Verso Press, 1996. At the beginning of his text, Hotel America, commentator and essayist Lewis Lapham speculates that the nationally articulated transformational challenge or project of American democracy to change the class hierarchy of Europe many have ended. "Although I know that Jefferson once said that it is never permissible 'to despair of the commonwealth,' I think it is possible
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