Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Postman, Neil

ISBN 10: 0140094385 / ISBN 13: 9780140094381

Published by Penguin Books, 1986

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140094385
• ISBN 13: 9780140094381
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Examines the ways in which television has transformed public discourse--in politics, education, religion, science, and elsewhere--into a form of entertainment that undermines exposition, explanation and knowledge

Review

"I can't think of a more prophetic, more thoughtful, more necessary - and yes, more entertaining - book about media culture." -Victor Navasky, National Book Award-winning author of The Art of Controversy

"All I can say about Neil Postman's brilliant Amusing Ourselves to Death is: Guilty As Charged." -Matt Groening, Creator of The Simpsons

"As a fervent evangelist of the age of Hollywood, I publicly opposed Neil Postman's dark picture of our media-saturated future. But time has proved Postman right. He accurately foresaw that the young would inherit a frantically all-consuming media culture of glitz, gossip, and greed." -Camille Paglia

"A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one." -Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World