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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Public Affairs
ISBN-10
1568586132
ISBN-13
9781568586137
eBay Product ID (ePID)
84253003
Product Key Features
Book Title
Empire of Illusion : the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Media Studies, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Popular Culture, General
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Remarkable, bracing and highly moral, Empireof Illusion is Hedges' lament for his nation."-- Macleans, "Each chapter of Empire of Illusion makes a strong case for how differentillusions...taken together are destroying the American mind, culture and thenation itself."-- National Post, "Each chapter of Empire of Illusion makes a strong case for how different illusions...taken together are destroying the American mind, culture and the nation itself."-- National Post, "A trenchantly argued critique of thenear-destruction of the American Dream by unfettered capitalism." -- Philadelphia Inquirer, "Thoroughly documented and written in a measuredbut take-no-prisoners tone.... It's bound to stir up its share ofinterest-generating controversy."-- Booklist, "A trenchantly argued critique of thenear-destruction of the American Dream by unfettered capitalism."-- Philadelphia Inquirer, "Remarkable, bracing and highly moral, Empire of Illusion is Hedges' lament for his nation."-- Macleans, "Thoroughly documented and written in a measuredbut take-no-prisoners tone.... It's bound to stir up its share ofinterest-generating controversy." -- Booklist
Grade From
Eighth Grade
Dewey Decimal
302.23
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Synopsis
"A trenchantly argued critique of the near-destruction of the American Dream" ( Philadelphia Inquirer) and the image-obsessed culture that has taken over society and culture An instant bestseller, Empire of Illusion is a striking and unsettling exploration of illusion and fantasy in contemporary American culture. Traveling to the ringside of professional wrestling bouts at Madison Square Garden, to Las Vegas to write about the pornographic film industry, and to academic conferences held by positive psychologists who claim to be able to engineer happiness, Hedges chronicles our flight from an ever-worsening reality. The cultural embrace of illusion and celebrity culture have accompanied a growing system of casino capitalism, which creates vast wealth for elites. Corporations have ruthlessly dismantled and destroyed our manufacturing base and impoverished our working class. Hedges exposes the mechanisms that undermine our democracy and divert us from the economic, environmental, political, and moral collapse around us. A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies, Hedges argues, and we are dying now., A prescient book that forecast the culture that gave rise to Trump -- a society beholden to empty spectacle and obsession with image at the expense of reality, reason, and truth. An instant bestseller, Empire of Illusion is a striking and unsettling exploration of illusion and fantasy in contemporary American culture. Traveling to the ringside of professional wrestling bouts at Madison Square Garden, to Las Vegas to write about the pornographic film industry, and to academic conferences held by positive psychologists who claim to be able to engineer happiness, Hedges chronicles our flight from an ever-worsening reality. The cultural embrace of illusion and celebrity culture have accompanied a growing system of casino capitalism, which creates vast wealth for elites. Corporations have ruthlessly dismantled and destroyed our manufacturing base and impoverished our working class. Hedges exposes the mechanisms that undermine our democracy and divert us from the economic, environmental, political, and moral collapse around us. A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies, Hedges argues, and we are dying now., We now live in two Americas. One,now the minority,functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other,the majority,is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority,which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected,presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this other America," serious film and theatre, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society. In the tradition of Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death , Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture,attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies,to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion.
LC Classification Number
P92.U5H365 2010
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