Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times - Hardcover

Goodman, Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743249194 ISBN 13: 9780743249195

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, 2004

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Paper Trail journeys through an era that has been golden in its advances and bleak in its disappointments. In a voice both reasoned and impassioned, Ellen Goodman makes sense of the cultural debates that have captured our attention and sometimes become national obsessions. She wrestles with the close-to-the-bone issues of abortion, working mothers and gay marriage, the struggles for civil liberties and equal rights, and the moral complexity of assisted suicide and biotech babies.
The lines that separate public and private life dissolve under Goodman's scrutiny as she shows us how Washington politics, Silicon Valley technology and the national media culture infiltrate our jobs, relationships and minds. With the trademark clarity that readers count on, she walks us through the dilemmas posed by new technologies that range from cloning to cell phones and makes us laugh at the vagaries of Viagra and Botox and unreality TV. And in a world that sometimes seems to be stuck on fast forward, she holds on to values as timeless as a family Thanksgiving and a summer porch in Maine.

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Ellen Goodman is a syndicated columnist for the Boston Globe and the Washington Post Writers Group.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0743249194
• ISBN 13: 9780743249195
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
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