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Why America's top pundits are wrong

Paperback • 2005 • English

Why America's top pundits are wrong

By Besteman, Catherine, Gusterson, Hugh

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In this fresh, literate, and biting critique of current thinking on some of today's most important and controversial topics, leading anthropologists take on some of America's top pundits. This absorbing collection of essays subjects such popular commentators as Thomas Friedman, Samuel Huntington, Robert Kaplan, and Dinesh D'Souza to cold, hard scrutiny and finds that their writing is often misleadingly simplistic, culturally ill-informed, and politically dangerous. Mixing critical reflection wi...Show more

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9780520243569

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2005

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English

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Why America's top pundits are wrong

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Paperback

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