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Idiot america: how stupidity became a virtue in the land of the free

✍ Scribed by Pierce, Charles Patrick

Book ID
100643163
Publisher
Doubleday
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
191 KB
Category
Fiction
City
New York, United States, United States.
ISBN
0767932080

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

pt. 1. The American way of idiocy. The Prince of Cranks ; The war on expertise ; Beyond Atlantis ; The Templars in town -- pt. 2. Truth. Radio nowhere ; God and Judge Jones -- pt. 3. Consequences. A woman dies on Beech Street ; How we look at the sea ; The principles of automatic pilot -- pt. 4. Mr. Madison's library. Torture in New Hampshire ; Mr. Madison's library.;With his razor-sharp wit and erudite reasoning, Pierce delivers a gut-wrenching, side-splitting lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States, exploring how a country founded on intellectual curiosity has somehow deteriorated into a nation of simpletons.

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United States

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