The Age of American Unreason

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The Age of American Unreason is written by Susan Jacoby and published by Vintage. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0307377121 (ISBN 10) and 9780307377128 (ISBN 13).

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.