{"product_id":"the-constitution-of-knowledge-jonathan-rauch-9780815738862","title":"The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth","description":"\u003cp\u003eArming Americans to defend the truth from today's war on facts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America's ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this pathbreaking book, Jonathan Rauch reaches back to the parallel eighteenth-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the \"Constitution of Knowledge\"--our social system for turning disagreement into truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Rauch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0815738862\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815738862\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brookings Institution Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/22\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2021","brand":"Jonathan Rauch","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44053940830463,"sku":"9780815738862","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_220ca016-ab31-4f52-8768-c55137adb499.jpg?v=1685027100","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-constitution-of-knowledge-jonathan-rauch-9780815738862","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}