That Does It: Desperate Reflections on American Culture is an enfilade of critical attacks on the absurdities, stupidities, and crimes of present-day American life. It's targets are dumb-but-dangerous politicians, infantile-but-invasive preachers, saccharine-but-poisonous cliches, mindless entertainment, spineless media, and a national lifestyle marked by manic consumption and extravagant wastefulness, narcissistic complacency, pseudo-patriotism, and the idiotic worship of more idols than you could throw a verbal IED at. The book provides a handy checklist of ills, from the life threatening to the merely obnoxious, afflicting the American psyche and body politic, which it then proceeds to submerge in satirical acid. This probably doomed assault on American cluelessness is recommended to all readers who have recently found themselves snorting indignantly at the nonsense dripping out of TV sets, car radios, talk shows, cineplexes, and White House news briefings.

About the Author
Peter Heinegg obtained his Ph. D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 1971. He is a professor of English at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. and is widely published as an essayist, translator, and book reviewer.


Book Information
ISBN 9780761843931
Author Peter Heinegg
Format Paperback
Page Count 132
Imprint Hamilton Books
Publisher University Press of America
Weight(grams) 209g
Dimensions(mm) 232mm * 155mm * 10mm