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    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
    Author
    Chris Hedges
    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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