From The Publisher: Apr. 19, 1993

LET'S ADMIT IT: JOURNALISTS CAN'T STOP WRITING. They are obsessed with the idea that they have something significant to tell the world. Often what they have to say may be less than earthshaking. At other times, they can knock your hat off. My hat is off to four TIME staff members whose obsessions have produced new books that you will be hearing about in the next few weeks.

From Robert Hughes, TIME's tireless art critic, comes Culture of Complaint (Oxford University Press), a lacerating study of the decline in American values that will surely raise amens among many people, as well...

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