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Dumbing down : essays on the strip mining of American culture by Katharine Washburn (editor), John Simon (Editor), John F. Thornton (Editor) is a social science available to read on EtoBox.

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The American scene, once so full of richness, promise, vitality, and achievement, now strikes many critics as a dispiriting carnival of follies, a spectacle of decline. In every area of our lives - including, but not limited to, education, politics, journalism, literature, ethics, film, religion, popular culture, jurisprudence, psychiatry, and even cuisine - one can observe an ominous slippage, a shift towards the bizarre, the third-rate, the purely opportunistic. How did such a vibrant legacy o

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Author
Katharine Washburn (editor), John Simon (Editor), John F. Thornton (Editor)
Publisher
W W Norton & Co Inc; W.W. Norton
Published
1996
Language
EN
ISBN
9780393038293
Category
social science
Subjects
Sociology, History, Humanities
Updated
2026-03-25

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