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The age of American unreason / Susan Jacoby.
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View onlineAthenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection E169.Z83 J33 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacoby, Susan, 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reason--Social aspects.
- Reason.
- United States--Civilization--1945-.
- United States.
- Civilization.
- United States--Social conditions--1945-.
- Social conditions.
- Mass media--Social aspects--United States.
- Mass media.
- Mass media--Social aspects.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Reason--Social aspects--United States.
- Social values--United States.
- Social values.
- Social psychology--United States.
- Social psychology.
- National characteristics, American.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 356 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, 2008.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780375423741
- 0375423745
- OCLC:
- 140101081
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