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.

• Author
• Katharine Washburn, John F. Thornton

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 336

• Publisher
• W. W. Norton Company

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780393317237

• Genres
• essays, cultural, anthologies, history, philosophy, education

• Release date
• 1997