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- Country of Origin
- United States
- Subject
- History
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition
- Country
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780375423741
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375423745
ISBN-13
9780375423741
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60661478
Product Key Features
Book Title
Age of American Unreason
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Media Studies, United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, General, Popular Culture, Movements / Rationalism, Social Psychology, United States / General
Genre
Philosophy, Social Science, Psychology, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
26.1 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-021562
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Jacoby's is a moderate, sensible, well-founded position, shared by many Americans, yet it somehow rarely got voiced amid the raging hyperbole of the culture wars. " Salon "Jacoby deploys sharp insight on our present straits" Los Angeles Times "Trenchant …One hopes her incisive book, just in time for the 2008 elections, will find an audience among the unconverted who will take her warnings seriously." San Francisco Chronicle "A surprising and uncommonly sophisticated treatment of a familiar topic." New York Observer " The Age of American Unreason picks up where Richard Hofstadter left off. With analytic verve and deep historical knowledge, Susan Jacoby documents the dumbing down of our culture like a maestro. make no mistake about it, this is an important book." --Douglas Brinkley, residential historian and author of The Great Deluge "This is one of the most eye-opening books I've read in a long time. Jacoby charts the intellectual and cultural currents that have characterized the United States since its founding and explains just how and why Americans have recently become so, well, dumb. Anyone who cares about the future of our country will want to read it." --Marcia Angell, editor in chief emerita, New England Journal of Medicine "Jacoby has written a brilliant, sad story of the anti-intellectualism and lack of reasonable thought that has put this country in one of the sorriest states in its history." --Helen Thomas, author of Watchdogs of Democracy?: The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public "Jacoby's fearless jeremiad, at once passionate, witty, and solidly grounded in facts, aries at a propitious moment, when many Americans are perceiving that ignorance conjoined to arrogance can be deadly. This book deserves to be widely read, and especially by concerned parents. As Jacoby insists, it is only within families that some immunity to mind-numbing 'infotainment' can now be acquired. First, however, there must be a will to resist--and if this stirring book can't rally it, nothing can." --Frederick Crews, author of Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays "To a country of underachievers and proud of it, this book delivers a magnificent, occasionally hilarious kick in the pants. Snap out of it, Jacoby says: Getting it right matters. Tough talk and wicked wit in the tradition of Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life and Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. " --Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography, "Jacoby's is a moderate, sensible, well-founded position, shared by many Americans, yet it somehow rarely got voiced amid the raging hyperbole of the culture wars. " Salon "Jacoby deploys sharp insight on our present straits" Los Angeles Times "Trenchant …One hopes her incisive book, just in time for the 2008 elections, will find an audience among the unconverted who will take her warnings seriously." San Francisco Chronicle "A surprising and uncommonly sophisticated treatment of a familiar topic." New York Observer "The Age of American Unreasonpicks up where Richard Hofstadter left off. With analytic verve and deep historical knowledge, Susan Jacoby documents the dumbing down of our culture like a maestro. make no mistake about it, this is an important book." --Douglas Brinkley, residential historian and author ofThe Great Deluge "This is one of the most eye-opening books I've read in a long time. Jacoby charts the intellectual and cultural currents that have characterized the United States since its founding and explains just how and why Americans have recently become so, well, dumb. Anyone who cares about the future of our country will want to read it." --Marcia Angell, editor in chief emerita,New England Journal of Medicine "Jacoby has written a brilliant, sad story of the anti-intellectualism and lack of reasonable thought that has put this country in one of the sorriest states in its history." --Helen Thomas, author ofWatchdogs of Democracy?: The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public "Jacoby's fearless jeremiad, at once passionate, witty, and solidly grounded in facts, aries at a propitious moment, when many Americans are perceiving that ignorance conjoined to arrogance can be deadly. This book deserves to be widely read, and especially by concerned parents. As Jacoby insists, it is only within families that some immunity to mind-numbing 'infotainment' can now be acquired. First, however, there must be a will to resist--and if this stirring book can't rally it, nothing can." --Frederick Crews, author ofFollies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays "To a country of underachievers and proud of it, this book delivers a magnificent, occasionally hilarious kick in the pants. Snap out of it, Jacoby says: Getting it right matters. Tough talk and wicked wit in the tradition of Richard Hofstadter'sAnti-Intellectualism in American Lifeand Neil Postman'sAmusing Ourselves to Death." --Jack Miles, author ofGod: A Biography From the Hardcover edition., ""The Age of American Unreason" picks up where Richard Hofstadter left off. With analytic verve and deep historical knowledge, Susan Jacoby documents the dumbing down of our culture like a maestro. make no mistake about it, this is an important book." --Douglas Brinkley, residential historian and author of "The Great Deluge" "This is one of the most eye-opening books I've read in a long time. Jacoby charts the intellectual and cultural currents that have characterized the United States since its founding and explains just how and why Americans have recently become so, well, dumb. Anyone who cares about the future of our country will want to read it." --Marcia Angell, editor in chief emerita, "New England Journal of Medicine ""Jacoby has written a brilliant, sad story of the anti-intellectualism and lack of reasonable thought that has put this country in one of the sorriest states in its history." --Helen Thomas, author of "Watchdogs of Democracy?: The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public ""Jacoby's fearless jeremiad, at once passionate, witty, and solidly grounded in facts, aries at a propitious moment, when many Americans are perceiving that ignorance conjoined to arrogance can be deadly. This book deserves to be widely read, and especially by concerned parents. As Jacoby insists, it is only within families that some immunity to mind-numbing 'infotainment' can now be acquired. First, however, there must be a will to resist--and if this stirring book can't rally it, nothing can." --Frederick Crews, author of "Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays ""To a country of underachievers and proud of it, this book delivers a magnificent, occasionally hilarious kick in the pants. Snap out of it, Jacoby says: Getting it right matters. Tough talk and wicked wit in the tradition of Richard Hofstadter's "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life" and Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death."" --Jack Miles, author of "God: A Biography"
Dewey Decimal
973.91
Synopsis
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought." Disdain for logic and evidence defines a pervasive malaise fostered by the mass media, triumphalist religious fundamentalism, mediocre public education, a dearth of fair-minded public intellectuals on the right and the left, and, above all, a lazy and credulous public. Jacoby offers an unsparing indictment of the American addiction to infotainment--from television to the Web--and cites this toxic dependency as the major element distinguishing our current age of unreason from earlier outbreaks of American anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism. With reading on the decline and scientific and historical illiteracy on the rise, an increasingly ignorant public square is dominated by debased media-driven language and received opinion. At this critical political juncture, nothing could be more important than recognizing the "overarching crisis of memory and knowledge" described in this impassioned, tough-minded book, which challenges Americans to face the painful truth about what the flights from reason has cost us as individuals and as a nation. From the Hardcover edition., Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--the addiction to infotainment, from television to the Web, which has resulted in a lazy and credulous public.
LC Classification Number
E169.Z83J33 2008
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- s***l (5)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseBook received clearly packaged with great care. Clean cover with no creases. Like-new book for a great used price. Excited to dive in. Seller was prompt and professional. Will go back to seller next time I’m looking for books.
- t***6 (28)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseGreat experience. I ordered a luxury hardcover for which the condition of the book is important and the packing was great and the item was as described. I asked questions during the process and the seller was responsive and helpful. I would definitely buy again from this sellerPARMET: Kennedy: Jack/Presidency (Two-Volume Set) (Lib of Pres) (Easton, 1986) (#267087637499)
- -***a (34)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThank you William for the book and the kind note! The book is as described and it's a great source of knowledge concerning North American Geology. It was very well packaged and arrived within the mentioned times.