The age of American unreason in a culture of lies

Introduction

1: Way we live now: just us folks

2: Way we lived then: intellect and ignorance in a young nation

3: Social pseudoscience in the morning of America's culture wars

4: Reds, pinkos, fellow travelers

5: Middlebrow culture from noon to twilight

6: Blaming it on the sixties

7: Legacies: youth culture and celebrity culture

8: New old-time religion

9: Junk thought

10: Culture of distraction

11: Public life: defining dumbness downward

Conclusion: Cultural conservation

Notes

Selected bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index.