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

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

Having read virtually every book he’s published, it was a tough call picking only one Neil Postman book for my Top Ten List. When I read a book, I usually have a yellow highlighter with me so I can mark a phrase or a passage that is particularly meaningful to me. And I try not to mark too much or it defeats the purpose. Well, in spite of my attempts at restraint, I found myself marking quite a bit in all but two of his eleven chapters. And were it not for enormous self-control on my part, I would have highlighted far more. Read any book by Neil Postman, but especially read this one.

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