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Taking aim at America’s spiritual drought.(Dispatches)

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From: The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
Date: 20070318
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There used to be, in the 19th century, something called the Condition of England novel. Written by the likes of Benjamin Disraeli and Charles Kingsley, it had, as its real subject, thinly veiled by a love-interest plot, the perceived crisis in the internal economy of what was then the most powerful nation on earth.

We now have the Condition of America novel, as American writers start to deal more or less overtly with the social, political and spiritual condition of their heavily compromised democracy and the ills spawned by its unevenly distributed prosperity, under arguably ...

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