[Vision2020] A short reading list on American anti-intellectualism

[Kenneth Marcy]

On Thursday 09 October 2008 15:04:17 nickgier at roadrunner.com wrote:
<snip David Brooks' remarks concerning Sarah Palin>

Four books by three authors; the second author has read the first and third:

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter, originally 
published in early 1963, and still available in reprint.

Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby, published 2004

The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby, published 2008

After reading these three, which form an informal trilogy, for dessert turn to 
Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.

This quartet of books could base an interesting holiday season conversation.


Ken