The age of American unreason

Author

Susan Jacoby

Call Number

• 973.91 J179 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Pantheon Books, 2008.

Physical Description

xx, 356 p. ; 25 cm.

Summary

Traces the current of anti-intellectualism from post-WWII to the present and argues that the nation's cult of unreason is both deadly and destructive.

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.