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: Velvel on National Affairs

Reasons Why

By Lawrence Velvel

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Misfits in America Chapter 4

Did the materialism and anti-intellectualism of post war America discourage a generation from pursuing public service? For Bronze and Wolfe, college in post-war America was dominated by a male group mentality that created a fraternity class full of boys intent upon verbally putting one another down while competing mightily in intra-fraternity games in pursuit of athletic glory rather than intellectual growth.

You can listen to Chapter 4 of Misfits in America here .

Episodes of Thine Alabaster Cities Gleam will be cross-posted here every Tuesday and Friday. Thine Alabaster Cities Gleam is also available on iTunes , and in print from Amazon.com

Full post as published by Velvel on National Affairs on October 03, 2008 (boomark / email).

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