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DESCRIPTION:SUSAN JACOBY \nreading & booksigning for "The Age of American 
 Unreason"\nThursday, April 24 at 7:00 pm\nat The Booksmith (1644 Haight 
 Street in San Francisco)\n\nAmericans are dumb. We are a lazy and credulous 
 public, prone to following ignorant political and religious leaders. In The 
 Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby dissects a culture at odds with both 
 its heritage of Enlightenment reason and with contemporary secular 
 knowledge and science. With wit, Jacoby surveys an anti-rationalist 
 landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of 
 "junk thought." This provocative new book challenges Americans to face a 
 painful truth about what our flight from reason has cost us as individuals 
 and as a nation.\n\nSusan Jacoby is the author of seven previous books, 
 including Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, which was named a 
 Notable Book of 2004 by the Washington Post and Times Literary Supplement.  
 Jacoby is a frequent contributor to many publications including The New 
 York Times and The Los Angeles Times.\n\nThis Booksmith sponsored event 
 will take place at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street in San Francisco). For 
 further information, call 415-863-8688 or visit www.booksmith.com     If 
 you can't attend this event and would like to order a signed copy of the 
 author's new book, please email or phone our store. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/18/18486578.php
SUMMARY:The Age of American Unreason
LOCATION:The Booksmith\n1644 Haight Street\nSan Francisco, CA 
 94117\nwww.booksmith.com 
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