Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending f
The Age of American Unreason
โ Scribed by Susan Jacoby
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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