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September 14, 2004
The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life: Nature's Debt to Society
| Title | The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life: Nature's Debt to Society |  |
| Author | Andrew Ross | |
| Publisher | Verso, New York | |
| Date | 1994 | |
| ISBN | 0 86091 429 1 | |
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| Andrew Ross draws links between biological determinism and environmentalism and warns against a tendency 'to wield biological authority as a model for social well-being.' 'The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life' misses very little of the pop culture landscape, and less still of contemporary environmental debate'. It is a sustained and enlightened attack on the perversities of environmentalism. Along the way we are provided with a perceptive analysis of urban poverty, American imperialism in Polynesia, the bombing of the world trade Center in New York and the Gulf war. | ||
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Posted by Books Editor at September 14, 2004 09:33 PM