Title The age of American unreason / Susan Jacoby.

Publication Info.	New York : Vintage Books, [2009]
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Edition	1st Vintage Books ed.
Description	xx, 357 pages ; 21 cm
Note	"Revised and updated"--Cover.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-332) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- 1: Way we live now: just us folks -- 2: Way we lived then: intellect and ignorance in a young nation -- 3: Social pseudoscience in the morning of America's culture wars -- 4: Reds, pinkos, fellow travelers -- 5: Middlebrow culture from noon to twilight -- 6: Blaming it on the sixties -- 7: Legacies: youth culture and celebrity culture -- 8: New old-time religion -- 9: Junk thought -- 10: Culture of distraction -- 11: Public life: defining dumbness downward -- Conclusion: Cultural conservation -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary	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.
Subject	United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
	United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
	Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Popular culture -- United States.
	Reason -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Social values -- United States.
	Social psychology -- United States.
	National characteristics, American.
	Cultuur.
	Sociale waarden.
	United States.
	Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
	Mass media -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01011303
	National characteristics, American. (OCoLC)fst01033342
	Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
	Reason -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01091278
	Social history. (OCoLC)fst01122498
	Social psychology. (OCoLC)fst01122816
	Social values. (OCoLC)fst01123424
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	Since 1945
ISBN	9781400096381 paperback
	1400096383 paperback

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