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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: (DLC) 2007021562 (OCoLC)140101081 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan Jacoby |
ISBN: | 9780307377128 0307377121 1299018300 9781299018303 |
OCLC Number: | 232537174 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 356 pages) |
Contents: | The way we live now : just us folks -- The way we lived then : intellect and ignorance in a young nation -- Social pseudoscience in the morning of America's culture wars -- Reds, pinkos, fellow travelers -- Middlebrow culture from noon to twilight -- Blaming it on the sixties -- Legacies : youth culture and celebrity culture -- The new old-time religion -- Junk thought -- The culture of distraction -- Public life : defining dumbness downward -- Conclusion: Cultural conservation. |
Responsibility: | Susan Jacoby. |
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