Copyright © 1991 by Christopher Lasch
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The text of this book is composed in Janson,
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Book design by Guenet Abraham.
First published as a Norton paperback 1991.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Lasch, Christopher.
The true and only beaven : progress and its critics /
Christopher Lasch.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 533).
1. United States—Intellectual life. 2. Progress. 3. Social
sciences—United States—Philosophy—History. I. Title.
E169.1.L376 1991
303.44'0973—dc20 90-33714
ISBN 0-393-30795-6
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