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The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning

The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning

Chandler, James

Paperback

21st Century United States HistoryGeneral EducationGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $13.95

ISBN10: 195884618X
ISBN13: 9781958846186
Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press
Published: Aug 19 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.50 Depth: 6.90
Language: English

Irony and satire in the contemporary American moment.

The second Trump administration has committed itself to upending the knowledge systems and deliberative institutions that have been essential to modern democracy, with the American university--site of scientific research and liberal education--a primary target. In The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning, literary and film critic James Chandler spotlights an American tradition of such hostility to intellectual life, especially the nativist movement of the 1850s that persecuted Catholic immigrants from Ireland and Germany. Ironically, Steve Bannon, the self-proclaimed Know-Nothing vulgarian who long ago recruited candidate Trump to his anti-intellectual crusade, is himself the great-grandson of an Irish immigrant who would have faced Know-Nothing backlash in that era.

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