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THE AGE OF AMERICAN UNREASON IN A CULTURE OF LI...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe prescient and now-classic analysis of the forces of anti-intellectualism
in contemporary American life--updated for the era of Trump  Twitter  Breitbart and fake news
controversies.The searing cultural history of the last half-century  The Age of American
Unreason In A Culture of Lies focuses on the convergence of social forces--usually treated as
separate entities--that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism. These include the
upsurge of religious fundamentalism  with more political power today than ever before  the
failure of public education to create an informed citizenry  the triumph of internet over print
culture  and America's toxic addition to infotainment. Combining historical analysis with
contemporary observation and sparing neither the right nor the left  Susan Jacoby asserts that
Americans today have embraced junk thought that makes almost no effort to separate fact from
opinion. At today's critical political juncture  nothing could be more important than
recognizing the crisis described in this impassioned  tough-minded book  which challenges
Americans to face the painful truth about what the flights from reason has cost us as
individuals and as a nation.

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