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From The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History, by Jonathan Franzen

To liberals, the mid-century was an era of unexamined materialism at
home, unabashed imperialism abroad, the denial of opportunity to women
and minorities, the rape of the environment, and the malign hegemony
of the military-industrial complex.  To conservatives, it was an era
of collapsing cultural traditions and bloated federal government and
confiscatory tax rates and socialistic welfare and retirement schemes.
		-- p. 15

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