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A review by sharonfalduto
The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
4.0
This book scared me to death when I read it in 2009 or so; it was all about how intellectuals were viewed with disdain, and how there was really nothing we could do about it. And it's all come so very true.
A screed on the rise of anti-illectualism in the U.S., tying it to the rise of fundamentalism, distrust of 1960s radicals, the lack of a national curriculum, pseudoscience, TV....a dense but readable, and very scary, book.
A screed on the rise of anti-illectualism in the U.S., tying it to the rise of fundamentalism, distrust of 1960s radicals, the lack of a national curriculum, pseudoscience, TV....a dense but readable, and very scary, book.