03025cam a2200361 4500 526796536 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781481588959 1481588958 325e0197-3e2a-414f-a32b-21a57ebda7c2 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9781982508661 9781982508661 545767 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Pierce, Charles P. Idiot America [Libby] : How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free. Blackstone Publishing, 2011. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 269MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 268MB. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML:The culture wars are over and the idiots have won. This is a veteran journalist's caustically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. The three Great Premises of Idiot America: · Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units; anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough; fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is determined by how fervently they believe it. Charles Pierce has led a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, and now it's 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 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.. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Pinchot, Bronson. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/545767-IdiotAmerica.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/545767-IdiotAmerica.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=325E0197-3E2A-414F-A32B-21A57EBDA7C2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/545767-IdiotAmerica.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/545767-IdiotAmerica.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=325E0197-3E2A-414F-A32B-21A57EBDA7C2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)