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100 1  Jacoby, Susan. 
245 14 The age of American unreason|h[Hoopla electronic resource]
       /|cSusan Jacoby. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bTantor Audio,|c2008. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
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511 1  Read by Cassandra Campbell. 
520    Combining historical analysis with contemporary 
       observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural
       phenomenon-one that is at odds with our heritage of 
       Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge 
       and science. With mordant wit, Jacoby surveys an 
       antirationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a 
       pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought." Disdain 
       for logic and evidence defines a pervasive malaise 
       fostered by the mass media, triumphalist religious 
       fundamentalism, mediocre public education, a dearth of 
       fair-minded public intellectuals on the right and the left,
       and, above all, a lazy and credulous public.Jacoby offers 
       an unsparing indictment of the American addiction to 
       infotainment-from television to the Web-and cites this 
       toxic dependency as the major element distinguishing our 
       current age of unreason from earlier outbreaks of American
       anti-intellectualism and antirationalism. With reading on 
       the decline and scientific and historical illiteracy on 
       the rise, an increasingly ignorant public square is 
       dominated by debased media-driven language and received 
       opinion. At this critical political juncture, nothing 
       could be more important than recognizing the "overarching 
       crisis of memory and knowledge" 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. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Mass media|xSocial aspects|zUnited States. 
650  0 Popular culture|zUnited States. 
650  0 Reason|xSocial aspects|zUnited States. 
650  0 Social values|zUnited States. 
650  0 Social psychology|zUnited States. 
650  0 National characteristics, American. 
651  0 United States|xCivilization|y1945- 
651  0 United States|xSocial conditions|y1945- 
700 1  Campell, Cassandra.|4nrt 
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