Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking » (REV)

Now updated and expanded with twenty new ways to think better, this is Steve Allen's humorous and provocative examination of the increasing American tendency toward muddle-headedness and ineptitude, which Allen uniquely defines as "dumbth." After cataloguing a host of hilarious and sometimes alarming personal encounters with shoddy workmanship, bad service, failures to communicate, and the general breakdown in the capacity to reason, Allen offers 101 solutions to this widespread problem. He recommends that we add a fourth "R" - reasoning - to the traditional reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetics.

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Television personality and author Allen catalogues a host of hilarious encounters with bad service, failures of communication, and a general breakdown in the capacity to reason, then offers 101 solutions to these widespread problems, explaining simple techniques for improving the ability to think. This edition is expanded with 20 new suggestions for better thinking. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.