The Age of American Unreason
by:
Susan Jacoby (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780375423741 (0375423745)
Publish date: February 12th 2008
Publisher: Pantheon
Pages no: 384
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.