Susan Jacoby
Susan Jacoby (/dʒəˈkoʊbi/; lahir 4 Juni 1945[1]) adalah seorang penulis asal Amerika Serikat. Pada 2008, ia menulis buku tentang anti-intelektualisme Amerika Serikat, The Age of American Unreason, yang menjadi karya berpenjualan terbaik New York Times. Ia adalah seorang ateis dan sekuleris. Jacoby lulus dari Michigan State University pada 1965. Ia menetap di New York City dan merupakan direktur program dari cabang New York dari Center for Inquiry.[2]
| Susan Jacoby | |
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 Susan Jacoby pada 2012 | |
| Lahir | 04 Juni 1945 Okemos, Michigan |
| Tempat tinggal | New York City |
| Pendidikan | Michigan State University |
| Pekerjaan | penulis, direktur |
| Tempat kerja | Center for Inquiry-Metro New York |
| Karya terkenal | Wild Justice, The Age of American Unreason, Alger Hiss and The Battle for History, Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism |
| Situs web | www |
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Bibliografi
- Moscow Conversations (1972)
- The Friendship Barrier: Ten Russian Encounters (1972, British edition)
- Inside Soviet Schools (1974)
- The Possible She (1979)
- Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge (1983)
- Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family, 1865-1992 (with Yelena Khanga) (1994)
- Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search for Her Family's Buried Past (2000)
- Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (2004)
- The Age of American Unreason, Pantheon (2008)
- Alger Hiss and the Battle for History (2009)
- Never Say Die (2011)[3]
- The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought (2013)
- Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion (2016)
Referensi
- ^ Barnet, Sylvan; Hugo Bedau (2008). Current Issues and Enduring Questions (edisi ke-8). Boston, MA: Bedford-St. Martin's. hlm. 41. ISBN 0-312-45986-6.
- ^ "Biography". PBS.org. May 14, 2004. Diakses tanggal 2008-06-15.
- ^ "'Never Say Die,' Susan Jacoby's tough look at the realities of aging". The Washington Post. 2011-02-06.