The Way We Live Now

from The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, History & Theory, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century
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Author: Susan Jacoby ISBN: 9780525566380
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: October 2, 2018
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Susan Jacoby
ISBN: 9780525566380
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: October 2, 2018
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

In this selection from her searing cultural history of the last half century, Susan Jacoby chronicles the menacing surge of anti-rationalism in contemporary American life and the degradation of public speech in presidential rhetoric, radio broadcast, television, and internet media where homogenized language and thought reinforce each other in circular fashion.  

At today's critical political juncture, in which boastful ignorance has infected public discourse at the highest levels  of government and throughout ordinary social media,  this impassioned, tough-minded work challenges Americans to face the painful truth about what the flight from intellectualism, facts, and truth have cost us as individuals and as a nation.

A Vintage Shorts Selection. An ebook short.

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In this selection from her searing cultural history of the last half century, Susan Jacoby chronicles the menacing surge of anti-rationalism in contemporary American life and the degradation of public speech in presidential rhetoric, radio broadcast, television, and internet media where homogenized language and thought reinforce each other in circular fashion.  

At today's critical political juncture, in which boastful ignorance has infected public discourse at the highest levels  of government and throughout ordinary social media,  this impassioned, tough-minded work challenges Americans to face the painful truth about what the flight from intellectualism, facts, and truth have cost us as individuals and as a nation.

A Vintage Shorts Selection. An ebook short.

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