Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture

With vigor, wit, learning, common sense, and urgency, twenty-three essayist--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 both diagnoses of and possible cures for this wasting disease.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/17/1997
ISBN: 9780393317237
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.11w x 0.75d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/10/1997