03188cam a2200541 i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700700030003400800410003701000170007802000300009502000270012503500240015204000340017604100080021004200140021804300120023205000250024408200150026910000270028424500710031125000340038225000250041626400780044130000310051933600260055033700280057633800270060444000060063150001360063750400670077350505810084052006250142165000470204665000360209365000430212965000340217265000380220665000400224465000650228465000370234965000370238665000500242365100390247365100440251265100420255665100480259820629871BJBSDDR20230411090602.0ta071019s2018    nyu      b    001 0 eng d  a  2018286629  a9780525436522 (paperback)  a0525436529 (paperback)  a(OCoLC)ocn989962322  aBTCTAbspacBJBSDRDerdadDLC  aeng  alccopycat  an-us---00a002 E 169bJ17a 201804a973.912231 aJacoby, Susan, d1945-14aThe age of American unreason in a culture of lies /cSusan Jacoby.  aSecond Vintage Books edition.  aNew updated edition. 1aNew York :bVintage Books, A Division of Penguin Random House LLC,c2018.  axxviii, 364 pages ;c21 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  v2  a"Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Pantheon Books....in 2008"--Title page verso.  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 337-340) and index.0 aIntroduction -- 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.  aFrom 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. 0aMass mediaxSocial aspectszUnited States. 0aPopular culturezUnited States. 0aReasonxSocial aspectszUnited States. 0aSocial valueszUnited States. 0aSocial psychologyzUnited States. 0aNational characteristics, American. 4aMedios de comunicaciónxAspectos sociales zEstados Unidos 4aCultura popular zEstados Unidos 4aValores socialeszEstados Unidos 4aCaracterísticas nacionales zEstados Unidos 0aUnited StatesxCivilizationy1945- 0aUnited StatesxSocial conditionsy1945- 4aEstados UnidosxCivilizacióny1945- 4aEstados UnidosxCondiciones socialesy1945-