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However the Lincoln Memorial is not a cheap bit of chamber of commerce boosterism; it is a genuine attempt to honor the 16 th president, just as the Washington Monument is meant to inspire penis jokes about presidents, judges, and former U.S. senators eager to pick up a quick buck, and so to unite a nation.
A calculated civic boosterism (so exuberant that the city's chamber of commerce slogan was once "Charlotte--A Good Place to Make Money") has spurred the city's desire to appear enlightened.
Gripes: 1) Friedman's belief in global economics and American-style capitalism's ability to solve the world's ills reads more like cheerleading than analysis: "[O]nly a New York Times foreign affairs columnist could write a book so relentlessly upbeat about the USA's prospects in an ever more tightly integrated world without being accused of unsophisticated boosterism" (David J. Lynch, USA Today ). 2) Some of his theories have already been disproved: His "Golden Arches" theory of international relations held that no two countries that both had a McDonald's have ever gone to war.
Parents are abandoning the PTA in droves for groups that are more local and hard-hitting, says a report . The PTA's reformist mandate--it pioneered libraries, hot lunches, and kindergartens--has degenerated into mere boosterism.
In "Cracking the Women's Movement Protection Game" in 1978, a staff writer was honest enough to acknowledge the journalistic--and political--pitfalls of such boosterism.