The age of American unreason / Susan Jacoby.
| Author/creator | Jacoby, Susan, 1945- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Pantheon Books, 2008. |
| Description | xx, 356 pages ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | Traces the current of anti-intellectualism from post-WWII to the present and argues that the nation's cult of unreason is both deadly and destructive. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2007021562 |
| ISBN | 9780375423741 |
| ISBN | 0375423745 |