The Age of American Unreason
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon-the addiction to infotainment, from television to the Internet, which has resulted in a lazy and credulous public.
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon-the addiction to infotainment, from television to the Internet, which has resulted in a lazy and credulous public.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781400137329 (1400137322)
Publish date: May 15th 2008
Publisher: Tantor Media
Edition language: English
It's hard for me to dislike a book that says George Bush is one of the worst presidents ever, David Brooks is easy to mock for his faux intellectualism, Bill O'Reilly is a boor and contributes negatively to thought in the USA, and other such items I whole heartily agree with, but the book is an anac...
The Age of American Unreason is another road-trip audio CD adventure so I couldn't take notes, I got distracted on occasion, and I can't review the text as I write this. Consequently, this review will be brief (perhaps blessedly so) and lacking in much detail but, for what it's worth, here it is:Jac...
A scathing and all too accurate look at the culture of anti-intellectualism that abounds in contemporary America.
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