How Long to Read Farewell to Prosperity

How Long Does it Take to Read Farewell to Prosperity?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 23 minutes to read Farewell to Prosperity by Lisle A. Rose

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Farewell to Prosperity is a provocative, in-depth study of the Liberal and Conservative forces that fought each other to shape American political culture and character during the nation’s most prosperous years. The tome’s central theme is the bitter struggle to fashion post–World War II society between a historic Protestant Ethic that equated free-market economics and money-making with Godliness and a new, secular Liberal temperament that emerged from the twin ordeals of depression and world war to stress social justice and security. Liberal policies and programs after 1945 proved key to the creation of mass affluence while encouraging disadvantaged racial, ethnic, and social groups to seek equal access to power. But liberalism proved a zero-sum game to millions of others who felt their sense of place and self progressively unhinged. Where it did not overturn traditional social relationships and assumptions, liberalism threatened and, in the late sixties and early seventies, fostered new forces of expression at radical odds with the mindset and customs that had previously defined the nation without much question. When the forces of liberalism overreached, the Protestant Ethic and its millions of estranged religious and economic proponents staged a massive comeback under the aegis of Ronald Reagan and a revived Republican Party. The financial hubris, miscalculations, and follies that followed ultimately created a conservative overreach from which the nation is still recovering. Post–World War II America was thus marked by what writer Salman Rushdie labeled in another context “thin-skinned years of rage-defined identity politics.” This “politics” and its meaning form the core of the narrative. Farewell to Prosperity is no partisan screed enlisting recent history to support one side or another. Although absurdity abounds, it knows no home, affecting Conservative and Liberal actors and thinkers alike.

How long is Farewell to Prosperity?

Farewell to Prosperity by Lisle A. Rose is 488 pages long, and a total of 125,904 words.

This makes it 165% the length of the average book. It also has 154% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Farewell to Prosperity Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 28 minutes to read Farewell to Prosperity aloud.

What Reading Level is Farewell to Prosperity?

Farewell to Prosperity is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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