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A peculiar feature of our country today, says Michael Barone, is that we seem to produce incompetent eighteen-year-olds but remarkably competent thirty-year-olds. Indeed, American students lag behind their peers in other nations, but America remains on the leading edge economically, scientifically, technologically, and militarily. The reason for this paradox, explains Barone in this brilliant essay, is that “from ages six to eighteen Americans live mostly in what I call Soft America—the parts of

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Author

Michael Barone

Publisher

Forum Books

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400081196

Category

social science

Subjects

Political Science, Business, Sociology

Rating

3.54 / 5 (90 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14