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London: Marian Boyars, 1977. X, 246 pages, reference notes, index. Decorated dustwrapper. The dustwrapper is badly torn, now in protective wrapper. The top corners of the front and rear board are bumped, minor handling marks to the page edges. "Awakening from the American Dream confronts the difficult questions of whether America and "the American way of life" can survive. In this book Rufus E. Miles Junior establishes and supports the thesis that social and political limits to growth will bring Western systems to the end of the era of growing affluence much sooner than physical factors. After analysing 22 determinants that have brought America to its present crossroads Mr Miles comes to four major conclusions. (1) Western affluence is fortuitous and nonsustainable; (2) the price of this affluence is social instability and irresponsibility; (3) society's energy "addiction" leads directly to nuclear commitment and the destruction of biosphere; (4) America and American influence societies are very close to the political limits to growth and only a total rethinking of social, economic, and political policies can avert a breakdown.". First British Edition. Black Cloth. Good/Atrocious. Octavo- over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Political Theory.