America – Dinç Yaylalıer – Telakki Yayınları

The United States of America is a land of contradictions, where the best and the worst coexist. This land, on the one hand, hosts the world's best universities, libraries, cultural centers, hospitals and technology centers, NASA, military power, sports facilities, Hollywood... On the other hand, it has the most unfair income distribution among all industrial societies, chock full prisons, homeless people, high crime rate, the world obesity championship despite billion-dollar investments for healthy and long life... In short, the winners and losers of society… Will all these contradictions lead to a radical change of order in the New World in the 21st century? How does America, the land of contradictions, maintain its superpower status? This book seeks to answer these and similar questions with an analytical approach within the integrity of theory and practice.One should read the book to better understand the United States of America as a whole with both its rights and wrongs. I believe the book is one of the most significant studies after Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. While doing his doctorate, Dinç served as my assistant for four years. Only his intellectual capacity and honesty could have produced such a book. I hope his book will be published in America...Prof. Dr. James KellyProfessor Emeritus of Turkish Language and Literature, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Utah I read the book in one breath, which I started with the fear that I would get bored. I cannot think of another book that describes education, social life, music, religion and nature in America so comprehensively and sightly.Dr. Murat Kınıkoğlu Yaylalıer's study is engrossing and mellifluous like a novel. It is an important book that analytically examines America from a political, cultural and social perspective. It must be read to understand.Prof. Dr. Atilla Yayla If you want comments and observations based on objective information, with an analytical approach, read...