The Age of American Unreason [Kindle ed] 978-0-307-37712-8, 0307377121, 1400096383, 9781400096381
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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Table of contents :
Content: 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.
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