The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making »

Al Gore was inaugurated as the 45th vice president of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served for eight years. He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, and The Assault on Reason and was featured in an Academy Award-winning documentary. He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

An indictment of the Bush-led radical Right's disdain for the principles of reasoned decision-making, and a reckoning with the degradation of the public sphere that facilitates their rule of unreason.

The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani

… for all its sharply voiced opinions, The Assault on Reason turns out to be less a partisan, election-cycle harangue than a fiercely argued brief about the current Bush White House that is grounded in copiously footnoted citations from newspaper articles, Congressional testimony and commission reports a brief that is as powerful in making its points about the implications of this administration s policies as the author s 2006 book, An Inconvenient Truth, was in making its points about the fallout of global warming.

Introduction     9
The Politics of Fear     47
Blinding the Faithful     84
The Politics of Wealth     131
Convenient Untruths     179
The Assault on the Individual     229
National Insecurity     284
The Carbon Crisis     337
Democracy in the Balance     379
A Well-Connected Citizenry     432
Conclusion: The Rebirth of Democracy     476
Acknowledgments     481
Notes     485