TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacoby,Susan
TI  - The age of American unreason
SN  - 9780375423741
AV  - E169.J17.A346 2008 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Pantheon Books
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - United States
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - Social values
N1  - 1 (pages 319-332) and index; 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  --; New old-time religion --; Junk thought  --; The culture of distraction --; Public life: defining dumbness downward --; Conclusion: Cultural conservation; 2; 2; https://ciu.libwizard.com/f/copyright-requests
N2  - A cultural history of the last forty years, The Age of American Unreason focuses on the convergence of social forces-usually treated as separate entities-that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism. These include the upsurge of religious fundamentalism, with more political power today than ever before; the failure of public education to create an informed citizenry; and the triumph of video over print culture. Sparing neither the right nor the left, Jacoby asserts that Americans today have embraced a universe of "junk thought" that makes almost no effort to separate fact from opinion.  ~  From the Publisher
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