Christopher Lasch
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 Christopher Lasch facts

• Lasch was a history professor at the University of Rochester
• Lasch sought to use history as a tool to awaken American society to the pervasiveness with which major institutions, public and private, were eroding the competence and independence of families and communities
• He strove to create a historically informed social criticism that could teach Americans how to deal with rampant consumerism, proletarianization, and what he famously labeled the 'culture of narcissism
• ' His books, including The New Radicalism in America (1965), Haven in a Heartless World (1977), The Culture of Narcissism (1979), and The True and Only Heaven (1991), were widely discussed and reviewed
• The Culture of Narcissism became a surprise best-seller and won the National Book Award in the category Current Interest (paperback)
• Lasch was always a critic of liberalism, and a historian of liberalism's discontents, but over time his political perspective evolved dramatically
• In the 1960s, he was a neo-Marxist and acerbic critic of Cold War liberalism
• During the 1970s, he began to become a far more iconoclastic figure, fusing cultural conservatism with a Marxian critique of capitalism, and drawing on Freud-influenced critical theory to diagnose the ongoing deterioration that he perceived in American culture and politics
• His writings during this period led him to be denounced by feminists and hailed by conservatives for his apparent defense of the traditional family
• He eventually concluded that an often unspoken but pervasive faith in "Progress" tended to make Americans resistant to many of his arguments