The Culture of Cynicism - Hardcoverby Richard Stivers (Author) Richard Stivers received an Earhart Foundation research fellowship to write this wide ranging and thought provoking book on American morality. The book places American morality in its historical and cultural context. His research uncovered an ersatz morality that has supplanted traditional Judaic Christian and humanistic moralities, which placed some limitations on the exercises of power. It consists of technical and