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The Culture of Narcissism

American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
Christopher Lasch
1979 · 320 pages

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.

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