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The age of American unreason

Traces the current of anti-intellectualism from post-WWII to the present and argues that the nation's cult of unreason is both deadly and destructive.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jacoby, Susan, 1945-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	United States > Civilization > 1945- United States > Social conditions > 1945- Mass media > Social aspects > United States. Popular culture > United States. Reason > Social aspects > United States. Social values > United States. Social psychology. National characteristics, American.
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Table of Contents:

The way we live now : just us folks
The way we lived then : intellect and ignorance in a young nation
Social pseudoscience in the morning of America's culture wars
Reds, pinkos, fellow travelers
Middlebrow culture from noon to twilight
Blaming it on the sixties
Legacies : youth culture and celebrity culture
The new old-time religion
Junk thought
The culture of distraction
Public life : defining dumbness downward
Conclusion: Cultural conservation.