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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594201226
ISBN-13
9781594201226
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57082915
Product Key Features
Book Title
Assault on Reason
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Anxieties & Phobias, Fundamentalism, General, Presidents & Heads of State, American Government / General, Movements / Rationalism, Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political Freedom, American Government / National
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Religion, Political Science, Philosophy, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
20.7 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-003261
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
973.931
Synopsis
The former vice president presents a visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith of the Bush-led radical Right has combined with the degradation of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason., A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degration of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason At the time George W. Bush ordered American forces to invade Iraq, 70 percent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. Voters in Ohio, when asked by pollsters to list what stuck in their minds about the campaign, most frequently named two Bush television ads that played to fears of terrorism. We live in an age when the thirty-second television spot is the most powerful force shaping the electorate's thinking, and America is in the hands of an administration less interested than any previous administration in sharing the truth with the citizenry. Related to this and of even greater concern is this administration's disinterest in the process by which the truth is ascertained, the tenets of fact-based reasoning-first among them an embrace of open inquiry in which unexpected and even inconvenient facts can lead to unexpected conclusions. How did we get here? How much damage has been done to the functioning of our democracy and its role as steward of our security? Never has there been a worse time for us to lose the capacity to face the reality of our long-term challenges, from national security to the economy, from issues of health and social welfare to the environment. As The Assault on Reason shows us, we have precious little time to waste. Gore's larger goal in this book is to explain how the public sphere itself has evolved into a place hospitable to reason's enemies, to make us more aware of the forces at work on our own minds, and to lead us to an understanding of what we can do, individually and collectively, to restore the rule of reason and safeguard our future. Drawing on a life's work in politics as well as on the work of experts across a broad range of disciplines, Al Gore has written a farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking.
LC Classification Number
E902.G67 2007
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