num_pages: 332
description: Passionate observers across the political/intellectual spectrum confront the downward spiral of American life, art, and thought. 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.
language: English
title: Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture
titlecomplete: Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture
genres: History, Cultural, Philosophy, Anthologies, Education, Essays, Nonfiction, Social Science, Cultural Studies
ratings_count: 55
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company