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Dumbing Down : Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture - John F. Thornton

Dumbing Down

Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture

By: John F. Thornton, Katharine Washburn

Paperback | 1 November 1997 | Edition Number 1

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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.
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A collection of savagely witty essays by a hardy band of cultural commentators who believe things are bad, really bad out there, and are not at all reluctant to say so.--Florence King "National Review"

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