Dumbing Down : Essays On The Strip-mining Of American Culture - Washburn Katharine & Thornton, John Edited - 1997
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Dumbing Down : Essays On The Strip-mining Of American Culture - Washburn Katharine & Thornton, John Edited - 1997
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329 pages. With vigor, wit, learning, common sense, and urgency, twenty-three essayist-including John Simon, Cynthia Ozick, Phillip Lopate, George F. Kennan, Sven Birkerts, Joseph Epstein, and Brad Leithauser-examine aspects of our pan-cultural "dumbing down" and offer both diagnoses of and possible cures for this wasting disease. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sociology & Culture; ISBN: 0393317234. ISBN/EAN: 9780393317237. Inventory No: 11116071.
By: Washburn Katharine & Thornton, John Edited
Year: 1997
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