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

by Katharine Washburn (Editor), John F. Thornton (Editor), John Simon (Introduction)

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  1997

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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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  Paperback
  1997

  $22.88

  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.