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  • The Great Agnostic

    Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought

    par Susan Jacoby ...
    "Jacoby writes with wit and vigor, affectionately resurrecting a man whose life and work are due for reconsideration" ( The Boston Globe).During the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America's enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as "the Great Agnostic." The nation's most famous orator, he raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separation of ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Age of American Unreason

    par Susan Jacoby ...
    A cultural history of the last forty years, The Age of American Unreasonfocuses on the convergence of social forces—usually treated as separate entities—that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism. These include the upsurge of religious fundamentalism, with more political power today than ever before; the failure of public education to create an informed citizenry; and the triumph of ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Never Say Die

    The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age

    par Susan Jacoby ...
    Susan Jacoby, an unsparing chronicler of unreason in American culture, now offers an impassioned, tough-minded critique of the myth that a radically new old age—unmarred by physical or mental deterioration, financial problems, or intimate loneliness—awaits the huge baby boom generation. Combining historical, social, and economic analysis with personal experiences of love and loss, Jacoby turns a ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Freethinkers

    A History of American Secularism

    par Susan Jacoby ...
    An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination" ( The New York Times)At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD

  • Half-Jew

    par Susan Jacoby ...
    Since childhood, Susan Jacoby, the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason, was sure that her father was keeping a secret. At age twenty, just before beginning her writing career as a reporter for the Washington Post, she learned the truth: Robert Jacoby, a Catholic convert with a Catholic wife, was also a Jew.In Half-Jew, Jacoby grapples with the hidden identity cloaked ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Strange Gods

    A Secular History of Conversion

    par Susan Jacoby ...
    In a groundbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, Susan Jacoby challenges the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey. From the transformation on the road to Damascus of the Jew Saul into the Christian evangelist Paul to a twenty-first-century “religious marketplace” in which half of ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Last Men on Top

    par Susan Jacoby ...
    **A feminist—and the bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason—looks back at the last pre-feminist generation of men who supposedly had it all and asks: what exactly did they have?How fabulous was life for men in the 1950s and early 1960s? How real is the world depicted by a television show like Mad Men: a world where visibly successful males, so long as they supported their families and ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Way We Live Now

    from The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies

    par Susan Jacoby ...
    Collections series A Vintage Short
    In this selection from her searing cultural history of the last half century, Susan Jacoby chronicles the menacing surge of anti-rationalism in contemporary American life and the degradation of public speech in presidential rhetoric, radio broadcast, television, and internet media where homogenized language and thought reinforce each other in circular fashion.At today's critical political juncture ... En savoir plus

    $0.99 CAD

  • The Founding Myth

    Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American

    Do “In God We Trust,” the Declaration of Independence, and other historical “evidence” prove that America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles? Are the Ten Commandments the basis for American law? A constitutional attorney dives into the debate about religion’s role in America’s founding.In today’s contentious political climate, understanding religion’s role in American government is more ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Why Baseball Matters

    par Susan Jacoby ...
    Collections series Why X Matters Series
    Baseball, first dubbed the “national pastime” in print in 1856, is the country’s most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans, among African Americans and women as well as white men. Furthermore, baseball’s greatest charm—a clockless suspension of time—is also its greatest liability in a culture of digital ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

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    The Founding Myth

    Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American

    Lu par Christopher Grove ...

    Version Longue

    12 heure 58 min

    Do "In God We Trust," the Declaration of Independence, and other historical "evidence" prove that America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles? Are the Ten Commandments the basis for American law? A constitutional attorney dives into the debate about religion's role in America's founding.In today's contentious political climate, understanding religion's role in American government is more ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

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    The Age of American Unreason

    par Susan Jacoby ...
    Lu par Cassandra Campbell ...

    Version Longue

    14 heure 57 min

    Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon—one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, Jacoby surveys an antirationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought." Disdain for logic and evidence ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD