| Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free Contributor(s): Pierce, Charles P. (Author), Pinchot, Bronson (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1455110485 ISBN-13: 9781455110483 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $29.66 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Essays - Social Science | Essays - Humor | Form - Essays |
| Dewey: 973.93 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.2" W x 5.7" (0.55 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The culture wars are over and the idiots have won. This is a veteran journalist's caustically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. The three Great Premises of Idiot America: - Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units. - Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough. - Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is determined by how fervently they believe it. Charles Pierce has led a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, and now it's time to try and salvage the Land of the Enlightened, buried somewhere in this new Home of the Uninformed. With his razor-sharp wit and erudite reasoning, Pierce delivers a gut-wrenching, side-splitting lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States and how a country founded on intellectual curiosity has deteriorated into a nation of simpletons more apt to vote for an American Idol contestant than a presidential candidate. With Idiot America, Pierce's thunderous denunciation is also a secret call to action, as he hopes that, somehow, being intelligent will stop being a stigma and that pinheads will once again be pitied, not celebrated. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pierce, Charles P.: - Charles P. Pierce is a staff writer for the Boston Globe Magazine, a contributing writer for Esquire, and a frequent contributor to American Prospect and Slate. His work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Nation, Atlantic, and Chicago Tribune, among other publications, and he is a regular on NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me and Only a Game. Pinchot, Bronson: -Bronson Pinchot, an Audie Award-winning narrator and Audible's Narrator of the Year for 2010, received his education at Yale University. He restores Greek Revival buildings and appears in television, film, and on stage whenever the pilasters and entablatures overwhelm him. |