The Age of American Unreason

✍ Scribed by Susan Jacoby

• Publisher: Pantheon Books;Vintage
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 356
• Edition: Kindle ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Abstract: Traces the current of anti-intellectualism from post-World War II to the present and argues that the nation's cult of unreason is both deadly and destructive

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 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.

✦ Subjects

United States;Civilization;1945-;United States;Social conditions;1945-;Mass media;Social aspects;United States;Popular culture;United States;Reason;Social aspects;United States;Social values;United States;Social psychology;United States;National characteristics, American;Civilization;Mass media;Social aspects;Popular culture;Reason;Social aspects;Social conditions;Social psychology;Social values;United States