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  • Author: Neal Gabler
  • ASIN: B004FGMR9M
  • ISBN: 978-0375706530
  • Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004FGMR9M
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Highlights

sensationalist trash was not the default culture for the intellectually impaired but rather, like the election itself, a deliberate, self-conscious expression of cultural hostility—a willful attempt to raze the elitists’ high culture and destroy their authority by creating a culture the elitists would detest. — location: 425 ^ref-1211

mass entertainment may have begun as the democrats’ revenge against the elites they despised. — location: 430 ^ref-17815

celebrity could create a best-seller more easily than a best-seller could create celebrity — location: 1861 ^ref-42920

who did for intellectuals what Picasso did for painters: caricatured them according to the prevailing prejudices and made them entertaining. — location: 2080 ^ref-43169

“One can only enjoy oneself, or suffer, for the entertainment of others,” — location: 2474 ^ref-29218

The Delsarte Speaker — location: 2944 ^ref-33479