Book · 1979 · Nonfiction
The Culture of Narcissism
American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 320 pages
★ 6.9 editorial score
Americans stopped building selves and started managing images, Lasch argued in 1979: competence and civic obligation traded away for therapy, celebrity, and a permanent hunger to be admired by strangers.
