The Resource The age of American unreason, Susan Jacoby
The age of American unreason, Susan Jacoby
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The item The age of American unreason, Susan Jacoby represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Wadleigh Memorial Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xx, 356 p.
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780375423741
- Label
- The age of American unreason
- Title
- The age of American unreason
- Statement of responsibility
- Susan Jacoby
- Subject
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- National characteristics, American
- Popular culture -- United States
- Reason -- Social aspects -- United States
- Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States
- Social values -- United States
- United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
- Social psychology -- United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1945-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jacoby, Susan
- Dewey number
- 973.91
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E169.Z83
- LC item number
- J33 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mass media
- Popular culture
- Reason
- Social values
- Social psychology
- National characteristics, American
- United States
- United States
- Label
- The age of American unreason, Susan Jacoby
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 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
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xx, 356 p.
- Isbn
- 9780375423741
- Lccn
- 2007021562
- System control number
- ocn140101081
- Label
- The age of American unreason, Susan Jacoby
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 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
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xx, 356 p.
- Isbn
- 9780375423741
- Lccn
- 2007021562
- System control number
- ocn140101081
Subject
- National characteristics, American
- Popular culture -- United States
- Reason -- Social aspects -- United States
- Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States
- Social values -- United States
- United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
- Social psychology -- United States
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