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| #2142 in Books | Neil Postman | 2005-12-27 | 2005-12-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.70 x.50 x5.10l,.53 | File type: PDF | 208 pages | Amusing Ourselves to Death Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business||49 of 49 people found the following review helpful.| Relevant, Compelling, Well-Argued, Well-Written|By %%%%|"Amusing Ourselves to Death" is an amazingly written and well-argued book. As Postman notes: In the Victorian Era (mid-late 1800s), novelist Charles Dickens had as much fame as The Beatles in 1960, Michael Jackson in 1980, or Brad Pitt in 2014. The farm boy in the late 1700s carried a pamphlet of Thomas Paine's writings||“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
What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever.
"It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNN
Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corr...
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