![]() Jacoby responded to questions from members of the audience. In her book she uses the Alger Hiss espionage case to examine shifting American political views in the way scholars and the media on both the left and the right have changed the way they view the case from 1948 to the present post-Cold War era. Susan Jacoby talked also about her book Alger Hiss and the Battle for History (Yale University Press March 24, 2009). She cites a toxic addiction to infotainment as a major cause of Americans embracing a universe of “junk thought” that makes almost no effort to separate fact from opinion. In her book she claims that American culture has become anti-intellectual and anti-rational. T12:01:11-04:00 Susan Jacoby talked about her book The Age of American Unreason (Pantheon Februand Old Street Publishing revised paperback, May 12, 2009). ![]()
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