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Christopher Lasch (June 1, 1932, Omaha, Nebraska - February 14, 1994, Pittsford, New York) a well-known American historian and social critic. He studied at Harvard and Columbia and was a professor of history at the University of Rochester since 1970.
Books
* 1965: The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963: The Intellectual As a Social Type
* 1977: Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged
* 1979: The Culture of Narcissism
* 1984: The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times
* 1991: True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
* 1994: Revolt of the Elites: And the Betrayal of Democracy
* 1997: Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminism
* 2002: Plain Style: A Guide to Written English
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