Inarticulate Society: Eloquence and Culture in America by Shachtman, Tom

Inarticulate Society: Eloquence and Culture in America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781416576792)

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Inarticulate Society: Eloquence and Culture in America by Shachtman, Tom

Inarticulate Society: Eloquence and Culture in America

$20.95
Inarticulate Society: Eloquence and Culture in America by Shachtman, Tom

Inarticulate Society: Eloquence and Culture in America

$20.95
Format: Paperback
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Thomas Schachtman, author of Skyscraper Dreams, approaches the muddy, intolerant world of political conversation through the belief that Americans have lost the ability to respond and argue differing points of view without coming swiftly to blows.

Considering the rising tide of political violence in America and the hateful and intolerant speech that appears to incite it, Thomas Schachtman argues that political debates are in danger of moving from the Senate chamber to the streets, taking the social stability needed for a working democracy with it.

Blaming this decline on the jargon used by specialists in the professions and academia in order to distinguish superiority over common citizens, Schachtman proposes a concrete, multifaceted program for rehabilitating eloquence through the constructive use of media in combination with political and educational reform.

Author: Tom Shachtman
ISBN-10: 1416576797
ISBN-13: 9781416576792
Publisher: Free Press
Language: English
Published: 09/11/2007
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d
By Tom Shachtman
By Tom Shachtman
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Tom Shachtman has written or coauthored more than thirty-five books, including Gentlemen Scientists and Revolutionaries, Rumspringa, and Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold. He has also written documentaries for ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and the BBC.

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