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Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture

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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 336
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780393317237
  • Genres
  • essays, cultural, anthologies, history, philosophy, education
  • Release date
  • 1997