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• Publisher : Vintage
• File Size : 20,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 February 2009

A scathing indictment of American modern-day culture examines the current disdain for logic and evidence fostered by the mass media, religious fundamentalism, poor public education, a lack of fair-minded intellectuals,

• Publisher : Vintage
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• Release Date : 12 February 2008

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

• Publisher : Metropolitan Books
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• Release Date : 07 January 2005

An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination" (The New York Times)

• Publisher : Vintage
• File Size : 53,6 Mb
• Release Date : 04 January 2012

Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to

• Publisher : Yale University Press
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• Release Date : 08 January 2013

A biography that restores America's foremost 19th-century champion of reason and secularism to the still contested 21st-century public square.

• Publisher : Vintage
• File Size : 54,9 Mb
• Release Date : 21 March 2017

In a groundbreaking historical work that focuses on the long, tense convergence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with an uncompromising secular perspective, Susan Jacoby illuminates the social and economic forces

• Publisher : Yale University Press
• File Size : 31,7 Mb
• Release Date : 20 March 2018

Baseball, first dubbed the “national pastime” in print in 1856, is the country’s most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young

• Publisher : Vintage
• File Size : 41,6 Mb
• Release Date : 14 February 2012

A wake-up call to Americans who have long been deluded by the dangerous twenty-first hucksters of longevity. “If old age isn’t for sissies, neither is Susan Jacoby’s tough-minded

• Publisher : Vintage
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• Release Date : 16 January 2018

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The prescient and now-classic analysis of the forces of anti-intellectualism in contemporary American life--updated for the era of Trump, Twitter, Breitbart and fake news controversies. The searing cultural

• Publisher : Vintage
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• Release Date : 15 March 2016

Since childhood, Susan Jacoby, the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason, was sure that her father was keeping a secret. At age twenty, just before