Idiot America

[Dave Monroe]

Idiot America
How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
Written by Charles Pierce

Category: Current Affairs - American
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2614-0 (0-7679-2614-5)

ABOUT THIS BOOK

The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots Have Won

A veteran journalist's acidically funny, righteously angry lament
about the glorification of ignorance in the United States.

In the midst of a career-long quest to separate the smart from the
pap, Charles Pierce had a defining moment at the Creation Museum in
Kentucky, where he observed a dinosaur. Wearing a saddle.... But worse
than this was when the proprietor exclaimed to a cheering crowd, “We
are taking the dinosaurs back from the evolutionists!” He knew then
and there it was time to try and salvage the Land of the Enlightened,
buried somewhere in this new Home of the Uninformed.

With his razor-sharp wit and erudite reasoning, Pierce delivers a
gut-wrenching, side-splitting lament about the glorification of
ignorance in the United States, and how a country founded on
intellectual curiosity has somehow deteriorated into a nation of
simpletons more apt to vote for an American Idol contestant than a
presidential candidate.

With Idiot America, Pierce's thunderous denunciation is also a secret
call to action, as he hopes that somehow, being intelligent will stop
being a stigma, and that pinheads will once again be pitied, not
celebrated.

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