The Assault on Reason: Our Information Ecosystem, from the Age of Print to the Age of Trump - Softcover

Gore, Al

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408891964 ISBN 13: 9781408891964

Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2017

Synopsis

Now with a New Preface and Conclusion: 'Post-Truth: On Donald Trump and the 2016 Election'

The United States of America is in the midst of a deepening crisis for their democracy. After the strangest election cycle in modern American history it is important that the grave threats to the American way of life that were glaringly revealed in this campaign are addressed. In The Assault on Reason, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore examines how faith in the power of reason - the idea that citizens can govern themselves through rational debate - is in peril. Democracy depends on a well-informed citizenry and a two-way conversation about ideas, but the public sphere has been degraded by fake news and the politics of fear, partisanship and blind faith.
Now updated to investigate the rise of Trump and post-truth politics, The Assault on Reason is a farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking, crucial if the vitality of democracy is to be rebuilt and good decisions made once more.

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Review:

Powerful ... His writing represents a decency and an intelligence in American political thought that has been missing in recent years (Nick Rennison Sunday Times)

Part civics lesson, part political jeremiad, part philosophical tract, The Assault on Reason reveals an angry, impassioned Al Gore ... This book shows a fiery, throw-caution-to-the winds Al Gore, who has decided to lay it all on the line with a blistering assessment of the Bush administration and the state of public discourse in America (New York Times)

He provides in this book one of the most comprehensive indictments of the Bush administration that has ever appeared in print (LA Times)

A lucid, passionately argued book ... Through drawing upon his life in politics and the expertise of skilled practitioners across a broad range of disciplines, his clear-thinking, visionary book packs a powerful punch (Good Book Guide)

As scathing as it is meticulous (Publisher's Weekly)

Book Description:

Now with a New Preface and Conclusion: 'Post-Truth: On Donald Trump and the 2016 Election'

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1408891964
• ISBN 13: 9781408891964
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352