A review by whimsicalmeerkat
The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby

4.0

This book managed to be at once hopeful and depressing to read. Hopeful because it is proof that someone recognized and is talking about the sorry state of the mind in our country, but depressing because it delineates just how far we've strayed from our origins as a nation founded by well-rounded, intellectual greats who hoped for a country populated and governed by equally wholly educated persons. While it has its place as a jeremiad and its element of "preaching to the choir," I absolutely recommend this book to anyone who understands why it is important that people read, and terrifying that so few people do now when compared to the number of those who are able.