Susan Jacoby
Born
in The United States
June 04, 1945
Website
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
18 editions
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2004
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The Age of American Unreason
29 editions
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2008
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The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
6 editions
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2013
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Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age
20 editions
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2011
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Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion
11 editions
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2016
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Why Baseball Matters (Why X Matters Series)
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Alger Hiss and the Battle for History
20 editions
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2009
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The Way We Live Now: from The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies
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Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search For Her Family's Buried Past
4 editions
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2000
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The Last Men on Top
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2013
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“This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.”
― The Age of American Unreason
― The Age of American Unreason
“The specific use of folks as an exclusionary and inclusionary signal, designed to make the speaker sound like one of the boys or girls, is symptomatic of a debasement of public speech inseparable from a more general erosion of American cultural standards. Casual, colloquial language also conveys an implicit denial of the seriousness of whatever issue is being debated: talking about folks going off to war is the equivalent of describing rape victims as girls (unless the victims are, in fact, little girls and not grown women). Look up any important presidential speech in the history of the United States before 1980, and you will find not one patronizing appeal to folks. Imagine: 'We here highly resolve that these folks shall not have died in vain; and that government of the folks, by the folks, for the folks, shall not perish from the earth.”
― The Age of American Unreason
― The Age of American Unreason
“High culture can never be obliterated as long as the species continues to produce individuals with the inclination and fortitude to pursue their interests and talents against the grain of the mass culture surrounding them.”
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