Amusing Ourselves to Death

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A most insightful book, documenting how the West has shifted from a word based culture to an image based culture - to the detriment of us all and in particular, rational public discourse and reasoned public affairs. Postman argues that politics, education, religion and journalism has been handed over to the show business demands of the television age. Coming from a secular writer, this indictment of Television is particularly powerful, especially since Television is so detrimental to Biblical spirituality.

"A brilliant powerful and important book....This is a brutal indictment Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one" - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World.