Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip Mining of American Culture

Title: Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip Mining of American Culture Author: Katharine Washburn ISBN: 9780393038293 Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc Published: 1996 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. Anthropology 1561295 Publisher Description: The American scene, once so full of richness, promise, vitality, and achievement, now strikes many critics as a dispiriting carnival of follies, a spectacle of decline. In every area of our lives - including, but not limited to, education, politics, journalism, literature, ethics, film, religion, popular culture, jurisprudence, psychiatry, and even cuisine - one can observe an ominous slippage, a shift towards the bizarre, the third-rate, the purely opportunistic. How did s