Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture by John F. Thornton, Katharine Washburn

Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture

John F. Thornton, Katharine Washburn

336 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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With vigor, wit, learning, common sense, and urgency, twenty-three essayist—including John Simon, Cynthia Ozick, Phillip Lopate, George F. Kennan, Sven Birkerts, Joseph Epstein, and Brad Leithauser—examine aspects of our pan-cultural "dumbing down...

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