| JUST HOW STUPID ARE WE? Facing the Truth About the American Voter Rick Shenkman New York: Basic Books, 2008 |
Rating: 4.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-465-07771-7 | ||||
| ISBN-10 ? | 210pp. | HC | $26.95 | |
| Page 74: | "There are a variety of reasons." |
| Number error: S/B "There is a variety of reasons." |
| Page 114: | "It is worth pointing out that we have embarked on a radical experiment. How did it come about? Nobody deigned that it should happen. Nobody anticipated it would happen." |
| Word choice: "deigned" is wrong; perhaps S/B "desired". |
| Page 168: | "What it means in a democracy to have so few understand how our government works, who pays taxes, and how they are spent we do not care to inquire about too deeply." |
| Missing words: S/B "spent is something we do not care". |
| Pages 174-5: | "Does the modern media produce such an overload of information that ordinary voters feel anxious and alienated, leaving them vulnerable to simplistic appeals?" |
| Number error: S/B "Do the modern media". |
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