The age of American unreason

Introduction

1. The Way We Live Now: Just Us Folks

2. The Way We Lived Then: Intellect and Ignorance in a Young Nation

3. Social Pseudoscience in the Morning of America's Culture Wars

4. Reds, Pinkos, Fellow Travelers

5. Middlebrow Culture from Noon to Twilight

6. Blaming It on the Sixties

7. Legacies: Youth Culture and Celebrity Culture

8. The New Old-Time Religion

9. Junk Thought

10. The Culture of Distraction

11. Public Life: Defining Dumbness Downward

Conclusion: Cultural Conservation

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index