Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free

By: Charles P. Pierce

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Synopsis: The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots Have Won. A veteran journalist's acetic, funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. In the midst of a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, Charles Pierce had a defining moment at the Creation Museum in Kentucky, where he observed a dinosaur. Wearing a saddle.... But worse than this was when the proprietor exclaimed to a cheering crowd, "We are taking the dinosaurs back from the evolutionists!" He knew then and there it was 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 somehow 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.

Book Quality:: Excellent
Book Size:: 293 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780767926140
Publisher:: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date of Addition:: 07/07/09
Copyrighted By:: Charles P. Pierce
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Philosophy, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Deborah Murray
Proofread By:: Bob Wiley
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.