The Age of American Unreason

✍ Scribed by Jacoby, Susan

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Pantheon Books
• Year: 2008;2009
• Tongue: English
• 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.;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.

✦ Table of 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.

✦ Subjects

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