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9781597227933 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, August 6, 2008), cover price $31.95
9780375423741 | Pantheon Books, February 12, 2008, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: An indictment of modern American 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, and a lazy, credulous public.
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9781400096381 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 10, 2009), cover price $16.95
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9781400157327 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, April 1, 2008), cover price $29.99
9781400107322 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, April 1, 2008), cover price $39.99
Product Description: Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon-one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, Jacoby surveys an antirationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought...read more
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9781605148595 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, August 1, 2008), cover price $64.99 | About this edition: Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon-one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science.
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9781400137329 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, April 1, 2008), cover price $79.99 | About this edition: Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon-one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science.
A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degration of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason At the time George W. Bush ordered American forces to invade Iraq, 70 percent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. Voters in Ohio, when asked by pollsters to list what stuck in their minds about the campaign, most frequently named two Bush television ads that played to fears of terrorism. We live in an age when the thirty-second television spot is the most powerful force shaping the electorate's thinking, and America is in the hands of an administration less interested than any previous administration in sharing the truth with the citizenry. Related to this and of even greater concern is this administration's disinterest in the process by which the truth is ascertained, the tenets of fact-based reasoning-first among them an embrace of open inquiry in which unexpected and even inconvenient facts can lead to unexpected conclusions. How did we get here? How much damage has been done to the functioning of our democracy and its role as steward of our security? Never has there been a worse time for us to lose the capacity to face the reality of our long-term challenges, from national security to the economy, from issues of health and social welfare to the environment. As The Assault on Reason shows us, we have precious little time to waste. Gore's larger goal in this book is to explain how the public sphere itself has evolved into a place hospitable to reason's enemies, to make us more aware of the forces at work on our own minds, and to lead us to an understanding of what we can do, individually and collectively, to restore the rule of reason and safeguard our future. Drawing on a life's work in politics as well as on the work of experts across a broad range of disciplines, Al Gore has written a farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking.
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9780786299065 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 3, 2007), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degration of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason At the time George W.
9780747590972 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, May 22, 2007, cover price $35.25 | also contains The Assault on Reason, The Assault on Reason | About this edition: Drawing on a life's work in politics as well as on the work of experts across a range of disciplines, this work features a manifesto for thinking.
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9780143113621 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, April 29, 2008), cover price $16.00
9781594132827 | Large print edition (Large Print Pr, April 29, 2008), cover price $15.95
Drawing on a life's work in politics as well as on the work of experts across a range of disciplines, this work features a manifesto for thinking.
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9781594201226 | Penguin Pr, May 22, 2007, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: An analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has created an environment dangerously hostile to reason.
9780747590972 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, May 22, 2007, cover price $35.25 | also contains The Assault on Reason, The Assault on Reason | About this edition: Drawing on a life's work in politics as well as on the work of experts across a range of disciplines, this work features a manifesto for thinking.
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9780143142157 | Unabridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, May 22, 2007), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: An analysis of the consequences of the Bush administration's fear, secrecy, and faith-based initiatives explains how the administration has dangerously compromised America's capacity for addressing long-term challenges.
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