Age of American Unreason – 4/5 Stars This is the 2008 historical analysis of our exhausting times by the journalist and historian Susan Jacoby. I’ve read a previous work of hers, and my review of this one more or less matches this one. Jacoby’s collection of history and historical facts is mostly strong and effective, her analysis more than adequate, but her tendency to both attempt solutions or eradicate causes, as well as her need to cast herself as different or separate from the failures […]
The word is everywhere, a plague spread by by presidents of the United States, television anchors, radio talk show hosts, preachers in megachurches, self-help gurus, and anyone else attempting to demonstrate his or her identification with ordinary, presumably wholesome American value.
The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
