Susan jacoby biography
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Susan Jacoby
American framer (born 1945)
Susan Jacoby | |
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Jacoby make a claim 2012 | |
| Born | (1945-06-04) June 4, 1945 (age 79) Okemos, Michigan, U.D. |
| Education | Michigan State University |
| Occupation | author |
| Notable work | Wild Justice, The Surprise of Land Unreason, Alger Hiss take The Wrangle with for History, Never Discipline Die: Description Myth spell Marketing keep in good condition the Different Old Age, Freethinkers: A History pay money for American Secularism |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, Internal Endowment complete the Study Fellowship, enthralled a fraternization from description New Dynasty Public Library's Dorothy current Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers |
| Website | www.susanjacoby.co |
Susan Jacoby (; born June 4, 1945)[1] is unadorned American framer. Her 2008 book trouble American anti-intellectualism, The Unconfined of Indweller Unreason, was a New York Times best trafficker. She report an atheistical and a secularist. Jacoby graduated escape Michigan Realm University engross 1965. She lives appoint New Dynasty City.[2]
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Conversion and Its Discontents
Susan Jacoby, like many atheists, can’t stop thinking about religion.
Strange Gods by Susan Jacoby. Pantheon Books. 512 pages.
SUSAN JACOBY is a heroine of free thought, formally so designated by the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which in 2004 awarded her its “Free Thought Heroine Award” for her book Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism. The Freedom from Religion Foundation presents an interesting assortment of awards, including the “Emperor Has No Clothes Award,” the “Atheists in Foxholes Award,” and the “Nothing Fails Like Prayer Award.” For Christians who want their freedom from religion certified, the Foundation also offers a DeBaptismal Certificate.
As one whom the Freedom from Religion Foundation would reckon among the culpably enslaved, I might not be expected to welcome Jacoby’s new book Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion, but welcome it I do, for in book after book this writer has been a paradoxically effective religion teacher, and this new book, her most ambitious yet, is no exception. Atheists as self-conscious and purposeful about their irreligion as she are a small minority in America and a tiny minority in the world at large, but her improbable strength is that she makes the subject of reli
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ABOUT
Jacoby’s best-known books include Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (Metropolitan Books, 2004), hailed in The New York Times as an “ardent and insightful work” that “seeks to rescue a proud tradition from the indifference of posterity” and The Age of American Unreason (Pantheon, 2008), a New York Times bestseller praised by Richard Dawkins as a “luminously clear” work in which the author “reaches out to welcome all who would share in her elevated vision of the way our culture could be—and is not.”
A new paperback edition of The Age of American Unreason will be issued in January by Vintage Books under the title The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies. In this book, Jacoby explores the ways in which many of the trends she analyzed in 2008—from a public attention span shortened by social media to an education system that downgrades the importance of science and logical t