The End of Sanity:: Social and Cultural Madness in America (Paperback)

by Martin L. Gross (Author)

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At the University of Pennsylvania, separate dorms have been set up for minorities in the name of racial harmony...

Among women soldiers returning on a troopship from Desert Storm, one in ten was pregnant...

In New Jersey, dentists who are HIV-positive do not have to tell their patients...

Grades are so inflated at Harvard that 85 percent of students graduate with "honors"...

These absurdities are a sampling of the spreading decay in the American culture, a phenomenon best-selling author Martin L. Gross has dissected in The End of Sanity, a carefully researched examination of contemporary social madness. Watching the nation's tradition of fairness and individuality decline, he describes how it is giving way to a reign of conformity and error, including the insidious "Political Correctness." The crisis he describes goes beyond an attack on reason--actually heralding the end of sanity in American life.

Spearheaded by what he calls the "New Establishment"--a coalition of anti-intellectual academics, bureaucrats, politicians, judges, military leaders, social workers--the concepts that made America great are being thrown onto the cultural scrap heap in favor of a new "experimental" society that favors the few and ignores the many.

But, says the author, there is a cure for America's ailment once we have diagnosed how deeply social and cultural insanity has infected the nation. Gross gets to the root of the problem, including examining the "gods" of the New Establishment, then provides remedies that can reverse the wrong-headedness.

The End of Sanity is the most explosive book yet from the New York Times bestselling author of The Government Racket. This new work is essential reading for everyone concerned about the direction in which our nation is headed--a much-needed guide on how to lead America out of the social and moral morass toward a greater, saner tomorrow. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author
Nationally known journalist and author, Martin L. Gross has written more than a dozen books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Government Racket and A Call For Revolution. He has testified before the U.S. Congress five times, offering remedies and suggestions for a much-needed revamping of our political system, many of which have already been adopted. Mr. Gross lives and works in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Harper Perennial (December 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380787830
• ISBN-13: 978-0380787838
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #954,714 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not a Pretty Picture, May 3, 2000

By	Steven Fantina (Phillipsburg, NJ USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Martin Gross relates present day scenarios that make George Orwell's 1984 look like it was a minor sortie. He expounds upon colleges that dictate with one multi-racial voice the diversity views to which all students must rigidly adhere, and highlights corporations who put popular fads inspired by ex-sixties radicals ahead of profits. Through this chronology of mass destruction a sad situation is carefully unfolded. These vehement group thought campaigns seem suitable to glory days of Communist regimes. Tragically, this unhappy state of affairs is not an apercu of those Iron Curtain failures but a living nightmare taking place in the very nation whose shining example laid them low.

Especially disconcerting are the documented impacts seen on America's military. Congressional efforts to dulcify feminists and other militant shouters has left the world's finest fighting force battling the its most dangerous foe-political correctness.

One complaint is Gross's unwelcome use of the term "human kind." In a book that so brilliantly attacks postmodern sensitivity, the use of such a phrase is at best distracting if not downright derogatory.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A catalogue of the ideological screw-job we suffer., April 7, 1999

By A Customer

Martin L. Gross is a terrific radio talk show guest, but pick up his "End of Sanity" and you may find it hard to put down. He does the reader a service in essentially listing in review, todays major politcal issues, especially those which have been created by the Politically Correct Movement, (with its insane '60s mumbo-jumbo) a cause that has wrought havoc in every American institution.

For those who have not closely followed these issues, the book is a good primer. While for those seasoned to the matter, Gross helps to bouy confidence that the elusive subject is definable, compelling, worth the fight against it, and most important - that the battle can be framed to identify the wrong headed foe, and make all aware of their distructive policies.

It is enjoyable also to read Gross' wit and sarcasm as he parades before us one absudity after another, documenting them all to prove that truth is stranger than fiction.

This is an important book for anyone who needs to understand the politics of our present American scene. One can not truly understand what the Clinton-istas believe and what they are doing, without such a book.

Enjoy.

Tom Geraghty - New York City

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A practical guide to the closing of the American Mind., June 30, 2001

By	ROBERT KINGSLEY (Fort Collins, Colorado USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In 1987 Alan Bloom wrote THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND, predicting the insanity that would result from a politcally correct educational system. In Martin Gross' book, THE END OF SANITY, it becomes quite apparent that Bloom was absolutely correct. Gross provides practical examples of what happens when society pursues public opinion over truth.

Gross outlines how deconstructionists have supressed reason and denied truth in the name of philosphy. He points out that current politcally correct thought is evidence of not only the real problems in modern mass societies but also of the superficiality of the response to those very real problems.

The decay of our society is a sad thing to witness, let alone read about. Yet THE END OF SANITY is oddly entertaining, and hopefully will awaken the American spirit before it is too late to be saved.