A is for Ox
The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Age
By Barry Sanders
(Vintage, Paperback, 9780679742852, 288pp.)
Publication Date: September 26, 1995
Categories: General
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Description
The failure of increasing numbers of young people to attain even minimum levels of literacy signals a catastrophe at the deepest levels of our culture. A Is for Ox is an important and impassioned work that both proves this conclusion and suggests what can be done to change it.
Praise For A is for Ox…
"A brilliant, disturbing reflection on the collapsing moral order of post-modern America. If literacy is the wellspring of selfhood, as Sanders makes clear, our aggressive, image-addicted society is unwittingly committing cultural suicide."--Mike Davis











