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Broader in scope than al gores the assault on reason 2007, the age of american unreason 2008 attempts to trace the history of highbrow, middlebrow, and lowbrow culture and thinking in america, comparing past ages to the present age, digging particularly into the influence various factors religion, popular culture, consumerism, the press. It is a book to turn your understanding of the world on its head. Listener support helps make the politics guys possible. Jun 28, 2018 read or download the age of american unreason book by susan jacoby. Table of contents for the age of american unreason susan jacoby. Douglas brinkley, residential historian and author of the great deluge this. The age of unreason is a series of four novels written by gregory keyes. A synoptic and critical study of the age of american unreason by susan jacoby. It helps us to understand what tom peters, the american business guru, has called the new upside down competitive realities in the world of work and of leisure. Newtons cannon 1998, isbn 156865829x a calculus of angels 1999, isbn 0739402609.
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