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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.3
EAN: 9780394703176
ISBN: 0394703170
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: February 12, 1966
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: February 12, 1966
Studio: Vintage
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Rating:  - Old Friend
Last time I read this book I was travelling by plane from Charleston W. Va to Knoxville TN, in fall of 1968. The book was so fascinating that I read most of it non stop during the ride and waiting to change plans at a small mountain airport. The book suited my mood and my contemplations of society at that time. Unfortunately, I left the book on the plane when I arrived at my destination. I made mental note to buy it back, but never did, until reding another recent book on a kindred theme. On re ... Read More
Rating: - Beam me up Scotty
Hofstadter's book was published in 1963, a period when I was a timid third grader, hands crossed, attending a Catholic school in suburban Detroit. As I fast forward to today, thinking back at the state of intellectualism in the days of Camelot, besieged as it was by the ever present threat of nuclear attack, a spirit of intellectual discovery from the the depths of the seas to farthest reaches of space enthralled America's collective imagination; I cannot help but liken the state of today's critical ... Read More
Rating:  - anti-intellectualism in american life
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life I found this book shocking as to the lack of education in the late 1800's to 1930's. I also found it difficult to read due to small print & depth of subject. I had to read several paragraphs over. It was referenced on
"The Today Show" in connection with Susaan Jacobys "The Age of American Unreason." I decided to read the oldest book 1st & have not yet read Jacobys'
Rating: - Timeless
Hofstadter published this book in 1962 but it is even more valid today. The background on the history of Evangelicalism in America is one of the best histories, and it explains the vast audience of fundamental religion in America today. The only thing that has changed in the intervening 45 years is that the Evangelicals have become politically active and have established their own universities under the leadership of Evangelists Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell. Former President Jimmy Carter ... Read More
Rating: - Fear of Intellect
I am always amazed how ordinary Americans who say they believe in education find that those who are educated are members of an "elite." As if that meant something bad. Hofstadter unveils our schizophrenia over being educated and our parallel discourse of how we feel that it is undemocratic (in the old sense of the word)to be "smarter" than others because of "book learning." It is an old mistrust, yet we flock to colleges and universities anyway to do exactly that. Very strange conflicts run through American ... Read More
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