Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1993. [Vol. 1.] Eger Journal of American Studies. (Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 21)

BOOK REVIEWS - András Tamóc: Robert Hughes: Culture of Complaint. Oxford University Press, 1993. 203 pp

a constant redefinition of the nation's values, as a lack of a tangible and potent outside adversary forced Americans to search for the enemy within. Hughes and other observers of the American scene can find solace in the genius of American civilization, its built-in rejection of extremism. PC censoriousness will undoubtedly follow the path of the Salem witchhunts and the hysteria of McCarthyism, but until then it is reassuring to hear Robert Hughes, a sound of reason and tranquility over the jumbled noise of heated rhetoric and the deadlock of political paralysis. 181