Title:
The age of American unreason / Susan Jacoby.
Author:
Jacoby, Susan, 1945-
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, c2009.
Call Number:
E169 .Z83 J33 2009
Abstract:
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.
Edition:
1st Vintage Books ed.
ISBN:
9781400096381
Physical Description:
xx, 357 p. ; 21 cm.
General Note:
"Revised and updated"--Cover.
Contents:
Introduction -- 1: Way we live now: just us folks -- 2: Way we lived then: intellect and ignorance in a young nation -- 3: Social pseudoscience in the morning of America's culture wars -- 4: Reds, pinkos, fellow travelers -- 5: Middlebrow culture from noon to twilight -- 6: Blaming it on the sixties -- 7: Legacies: youth culture and celebrity culture -- 8: New old-time religion -- 9: Junk thought -- 10: Culture of distraction -- 11: Public life: defining dumbness downward -- Conclusion: Cultural conservation -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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