TY  - BOOK
N2  - From the Publisher:  A cultural history of the last forty years, The Age of American Unreason 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; and the triumph of video over print culture. Sparing neither the right nor the left, Jacoby asserts that Americans today have embraced a universe of "junk thought" that makes almost no effort to separate fact from opinion.
AB  - From the Publisher:  A cultural history of the last forty years, The Age of American Unreason 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; and the triumph of video over print culture. Sparing neither the right nor the left, Jacoby asserts that Americans today have embraced a universe of "junk thought" that makes almost no effort to separate fact from opinion.
T1  - The age of American unreason /
DA  - 2008.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Jacoby, Susan,
CN  - E169.Z83
CN  - E169.Z83
PB  - Pantheon Books,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2008.
ID  - 338804
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Reason
KW  - Social values
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - National characteristics, American.
SN  - 9780375423741
SN  - 0375423745
TI  - The age of American unreason /
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0719/2007021562.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0719/2007021562.html
ER  -