The Age of American Unreason [Kindle ed] 9780307377128, 0307377121

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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English Pages xx, 356 pages ; 25 cm Year 2008;2009

The Age of American Unreason [Kindle ed]
9780307377128, 0307377121

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Jacoby
Susan

Table of 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.

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