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Empire of illusion [electronic resource] : the end of literacy and the triumph of spectacle / Chris Hedges.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hedges, Chris.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--United States.
- Mass media.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Nation Books, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate America that craves fantasy, ecstasy, and illusion.
- Contents:
- Contents; I The Illusion of Literacy; II The Illusion of Love; III The Illusion of Wisdom; IV The Illusion of Happiness; V The Illusion of America; Notes; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-46228-8
- 9786612462283
- 0-7867-4955-5
- OCLC:
- 656957758
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