384 pages Doubleday & Company, Inc. Publication Date: September 1974 Paperback ISBN: 0399503609 Hardcover ISBN: 0385070748

What is really happening in America now? Are we the morally and economically bankrupt society our prophets of doom describe? Is the United States in a snowballing decline that cannot be reversed? What about poverty, blacks, women, sex, alienation, belief in our institutions, quality of life?

To find out what is really going on in the United States, Ben Wattenberg has drawn from an incredible bank of data. The Real America is peppered with startling information on everything from the so-called sexual revolution to the results of the ecology movement, but beyond that it takes issue with what Wattenberg calls our Failure and Guilt Complex and in so doing explodes some of our more fashionable myths. What emerges is an unexpected--and heartening--portrait of the real America and one that is bound to be controversial.