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How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
Doubleday
June 2009
On Sale: June 2, 2009
304 pages
ISBN: 0767926145
EAN: 9780767926140
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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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