Idiot America
How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
New York : Knopf Doubleday Group, [2009]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: x, 293 pages ; 22 cm
In his legendary career, Pierce has interviewed all manner of charlatans, politicians, demagogues and fanatics and is revered by journalists for his brilliant and ferocious Esquire articles exposing that idiocy in America is mainstream. More people vote for an American Idol than a president, the media is saturated with Paris and Britney, global warming is ignored and the internet is used a medium to spread ignorance. Pierce lets loose in him inimitable style on the foibles of society with a secret hope that being smart will fight against the trend to celebrate stupidity.
Subjects:
Stupidity -- Political aspects -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- -- Philosophy.
Stupidity -- Political aspects -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- -- Philosophy.
ISBN:
0767926145
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GOV Politics US Pie | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |