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02752aim a2200409 a 4500 001 08AFBF76DE6B11DF9C83A1F56AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20101023010128 008 100805s2007 000 0 eng u 020 $a 9781415944134 020 $a 141594413X (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)\9781415944134 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) 040 $a TEFOD $d SILO 100 1 $a Gore, Albert, 1948- 245 1 $a The assault on reason [electronic resource] $c Al Gore. 260 $a [Santa Ana, Calif.] $b Books on Tape $c 2007. 300 $a Mode of access: $b World Wide Web. Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 145692 KB). 500 $a Downloadable audio file. 500 $a Duration: 10:08:17. 500 $a Title from: Title details screen. 500 $a Unabridged. 520 $a A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degration of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason. At the time George W. Bush ordered American forces to invade Iraq, 70 percent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. Voters in Ohio, when asked by pollsters to list what stuck in their minds about the campaign, most frequently named two Bush television ads that played to fears of terrorism. We live in an age when the thirty-second television spot is the most powerful force shaping the electorate's thinking, and America is in the hands of an administration less interested than any previous administration in sharing the truth with the citizenry. Related to this and of even greater concern is this administration's disinterest in the process by which the truth is ascertained, the tenets of fact-based reasoning-first among them an embrace of open inquiry in which unexpected and even inconvenient facts can lead to unexpected conclusions. 650 $a Audiobooks. 650 $a Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946- 650 $a Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946- Friends and associates. 650 $a Democracy $x United States. 650 $a Fear $x United States. $x United States. 650 $a Official secrets $x United States. 650 $a Political culture $x United States. 650 $a Reason $x United States. $x United States. 650 $a Reason $x United States. $x United States. 650 $a Religious fundamentalism $x United States. $x United States. 650 $a United States $x 2001- $x 2001- 856 $u http://wilbor.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=551B62C3-1889-4F95-8F58-FBC2BD799CC8 $3 URL 941 $a 2 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20110608043239.0 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20101023011134.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=08AFBF76DE6B11DF9C83A1F56AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search