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The Way We Live Now

from The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies

By Susan Jacoby

By Susan Jacoby

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Oct 02, 2018 | ISBN 9780525566380

The Way We Live Now by Susan Jacoby
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About The Way We Live Now

In this selection from her searing cultural history of the last half century, Susan Jacoby chronicles the menacing surge of anti-rationalism in contemporary American life and the degradation of public speech in presidential rhetoric, radio broadcast, television, and internet media where homogenized language and thought reinforce each other in circular fashion.  

At today’s critical political juncture, in which boastful ignorance has infected public discourse at the highest levels  of government and throughout ordinary social media,  this impassioned, tough-minded work challenges Americans to face the painful truth about what the flight from intellectualism, facts, and truth have cost us as individuals and as a nation.

A Vintage Shorts Selection. An ebook short.

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About Susan Jacoby

SUSAN JACOBY is the author of eleven previous books, including Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism and Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion. Her articles have appeared frequently in the op-ed pages of The New York Times and in forums… More about Susan Jacoby

Product Details

Category: Politics | 20th Century U.S. History

Ebook | $0.99
Published by Vintage
Oct 02, 2018 | 32 Pages | ISBN 9780525566380
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Praise

Praise for Susan Jacoby’s The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies:

“There are few subjects more timely than the one tackled by Jacoby.”
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
 
“Forceful. . . . Cogently argued. . . . An intellectual journey of the first order.”
—Chicago Tribune

“A surprising and uncommonly sophisticated treatment of a familiar topic.”
—New York Observer

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