The age of American unreason / Susan Jacoby.
By: Jacoby, Susan
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TextPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books, 2008Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: xx, 356 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780375423741; 0375423745.Subject(s): Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States | Popular culture -- United States | Reason -- Social aspects -- United States | Social values -- United States | Social psychology -- United States | National characteristics, American | United States -- Civilization -- 1945- | United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-DDC classification: 973.91 Online resources: Table of contents | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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