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Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America


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Stupid is the new smart--but it wasn't always so Popular culture has divorced itself from the life of the mind. Who has time for great books or deep thought when there is Jersey Shore to watch, a txt 2 respond 2, and World of Warcraft to play? At the same time, those who pursue the life of the mind have insulated themselves from popular culture. Speaking in insider jargon and writing unread books, intellectuals have locked themselves away in a ghetto of their own creation. It wasn't always so. Blue Collar Intellectuals vividly captures a time in the twentieth century when the everyman aspired to high culture and when intellectuals descended from the ivory tower to speak to the everyman. Author Daniel J. Flynn profiles thinkers from working-class backgrounds who played a prominent role in American life by addressing their intellectual work to a mass audience. Blue Collar Intellectuals shows us how much everyone--intellectual and everyman alike--has suffered from mass culture's crowding out of higher things and the elite's failure to engage the masses.

About the Author :
Daniel J. Flynn is the author of A Conservative History of the American Left and Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas. A popular radio guest and frequent speaker on college campuses, he blogs at www.flynnfiles.com.

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"Thought-provoking . . . The lives and work of [Flynn's] half-dozen intellectuals stand in sharp contrast to the present cultural decline . . . Excellent book." --The American Conservative "The ever smart Daniel Flynn's all-American team of great independent intellectuals . . . [A] quite good work of Americana." --The American Spectator "Evidence of the dumbing down of America is everywhere. Some of it is chronicled in a new book, Blue Collar Intellectuals. Flynn contends popular culture has divorced itself from the life of the mind." --Cal Thomas, nationally syndicated columnist "Flynn's brief for the life of books and the mind is compelling, and his profiles of intellectual heroes of modest beginnings are informative and affecting." --Washington Times "Flynn makes plenty of trenchant observations about our deteriorating society. . . . And he makes a great case for why it is happening. . . . Good stuff." --FrontPage Magazine "A vital alternative to the complacent relativism of contemporary cultural stewards." --Mark Bauerlein, best-selling author of The Dumbest Generation "Flynn's case histories of a wonderful--and uniquely American--tradition of bringing learning to the masses offers us a morality tale in these times of spiraling tuition, esoteric publication, and an insular academia mostly cut off from wider society."--Victor Davis Hanson, coauthor of Who Killed Homer? and The Bonfire of the Humanities "Flynn's deft historical profiles remind us that popular culture and the life of the mind need not be adversaries."--Brian C. Anderson, editor of City Journal and author of South Park Conservatives


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  • ISBN-13: 9781497621510
  • Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
  • Publisher Imprint: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America
  • ISBN-10: 1497621518
  • Publisher Date: 08 Apr 2014
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 224


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