Amusing Ourselves to DeathWhat happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever. Originally published in 1985, Neil Postmans groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty first century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with

beginning with his formative observations

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a masterpiece beyond comparison

With the rise of nationalism

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Where Are You

In what began as a series of essays in The New York Review of Books

happiness soon feels a world away

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They offer new insight into the workings of the author's mind

and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things