Amusing Ourselves to Death Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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