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Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free

✍ Scribed by Pierce, Charles P

Book ID: 106888567
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 203 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780767926157

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✦ Synopsis

EDITORIAL REVIEW: NATIONAL BESTSELLER****The three Great Premises of Idiot America:· Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units· Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough· Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is determined by how fervently they believe it With his trademark wit and insight, veteran journalist Charles Pierce delivers a gut-wrenching, side-splitting lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. Pierce asks how a country founded on intellectual curiosity has somehow deteriorated into a nation of simpletons more apt to vote for an American Idol contestant than a presidential candidate. But his thunderous denunciation is also a secret call to action, as he hopes that somehow, being intelligent will stop being a stigma, and that pinheads will once again be pitied, not celebrated. Erudite and razor-sharp, Idiot America is at once an invigorating history lesson, a cutting cultural critique, and a bullish appeal to our smarter selves.

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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.