The Age Of American Unreason by Susan JacobyMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
Hooter: Tracing the history of the lack of political astuteness of the voting common man in the American context tending towards anti-intellectual narrative of today.
Highly academic and probably a lot of context which didn't connect with me, the broad strokes are resonating. We are seeing it across the world as the intellectual elite in his/her ivory tower has lost the connect or the aura they once had. Susan feels saddened by that so the book does rail towards the left . Written in a chronological order, captures the phases as various factors lead to the downfall of intelligentsia thinking amongst the masses. Skipping her narrative aside, it gives good color into the history of things like popular culture, politics and movies in America and all her effort into research comes across really well, her bias not so much.
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