Amusing Ourselves to Death

I can't think of a more prophetic, more thoughtful, more necessary - and yes, more entertaining - book about media culture. -Victor Navasky, National Book Award-winning author of The Art of Controversy All I can say about Neil Postman's brilliant Amusing Ourselves to Death is: Guilty As Charged. -Matt Groening, Creator of The Simpsons As a fervent evangelist of the age of Hollywood, I publicly opposed Neil Postman's dark picture of our media-saturated future. But time has proved Postman right. He accurately foresaw that the young would inherit a frantically all-consuming media culture of glitz, gossip, and greed. -Camille Paglia A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one. -Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World