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Review “I can’t think of a more prophetic, more thoughtful, more necessary â€" and yes, more entertaining â€" book about media culture.†â€"Victor Navasky, National Book Award-winning author of The Art of Controversy “All I can say about Neil Postman’s brilliant Amusing Ourselves to Death is: Guilty As Charged.†â€"Matt Groening, Creator of The Simpsons “As a fervent evangelist of the age of Hollywood, I publicly opposed Neil Postman’s dark picture of our media-saturated future. But time has proved Postman right. He accurately foresaw that the young would inherit a frantically all-consuming media culture of glitz, gossip, and greed.†â€"Camille Paglia “A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one.†â€"Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World Read more About the Author
Neil Postman (1931â€"2003) was chairman of the Department of Communication Arts at New York University and founder of its Media Ecology program. He wrote more than twenty books. Read more Books,Engineering & Transportation,Engineering, Penguin Books; Anniversary edition (December 27, 2005) 208 pages Version in English
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