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Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture Paperback - 1997
by John F. Thornton (Editor); Katharine Washburn (Editor); Introduction by John Simon
With vigor, wit, learning, common sense, and urgency, 23 essayists--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 diagnoses of a possible cures for this wasting disease.
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Gilbert T. Sewall is director of the American Textbook Council, a research organization that conducts independent reviews and studies of schoolbooks in history, civics, and the humanities.
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- Title Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture
- Author John F. Thornton (Editor); Katharine Washburn (Editor); Introduction by John Simon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Thus
- Pages 332
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Date 1997-11-17
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780393317237 / 0393317234
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.11 x 0.75 in (23.50 x 15.52 x 1.91 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Intellectual life - 20th, Popular culture - United States - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95025469
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.097
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- Publishers Weekly, 11/10/1997, Page 0
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