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Author

Jacoby, Susan, 1945-

Title The age of American unreason / Susan Jacoby.

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New York : Pantheon Books, 2008.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	973.92 J159a 2008	---	Available
Axe Haldeman-Julius Collection	973.92 J159a 2008 c.2	---	Lib Use Only

Description	xx, 356 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography	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.
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.
Subject	United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
	United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
	Mass media -- Social aspects.
	Popular culture.
	Reason -- Social aspects.
	Social values.
	Social psychology.
	National characteristics, American.
ISBN	0375423745
	9780375423741
Standard No.	NZ1 11432660
	AU@ 000041722006
	NLGGC 306971305