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.
| Main Author: | Jacoby, Susan, 1945- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
c2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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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.