The age of American unreason
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
1 online resource (xx, 356 pages)
9780307377128, 9781299018303, 0307377121, 1299018300
232537174
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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