The Age of American Unreason 9780307377128

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The Age of American Unreason
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Traces the current of anti-intellectualism from post-World War II to the present and argues that the nation's cult

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Traces the current of anti-intellectualism from post-World War II to the present and argues that the nation's cult

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The Progressive Woke Machine--from outrage mobs and online censorship to activists masquerading as journalists--is wagin

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In late Victorian and Edwardian Canada, confinement in an asylum was a common fate for many middle-class women who, as a

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From the staged debates over religious enthusiasm to the earnest offerings of ordinary men and women to speak to and for

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A colorful social and cultural history of the often-overlooked independent radio stations of the 1920s, which played an

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A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity i

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Puzzles have intrigued and entertained generations of children – and their parents – for over 2,000 ye

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