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ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM IN AMERICAN MEDIA - DANE S...

In this book  Dane S. Claussen argues that the news media have fed vocationalism and self-doubt
in higher education  and anti-intellectualism throughout American culture. Analyzing articles
in popular national magazines since the G.I. Bill of 1944  Claussen finds that media have
overwhelmingly portrayed college as a time and place for students to play sports  date and
marry  drink and take drugs  protest  join fraternities and sororities  go on vacations  avoid
the draft  escape their parents  and  perhaps most of all  network and find jobs - in short  do
almost anything except research  study  write  think  or debate. In the tradition of Richard
Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize-winning Anti-intellectualism in American Life and Allan Bloom's
Closing of the American Mind  Claussen illustrates the counterintuitive and underestimated -
nearly overlooked - role of the news media in higher education and anti-intellectualism.

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