Part 47 (1/2)

John Brockman The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995

A recent criticism of the book, by Phillip E Johnson, on the World Wide Web, states that the scientists contributing to the book ”tend to replace the literary intellectuals rather than cooperate with the of the American Mind New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987

Antoine de St Exupry The Little Prince Trans Katherine Woods New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1943

Helmut Schmidt, ex-Chancellor of West Germany, Marion Grfin Dnhoff, editor-in-chief of Die Zeit, Edzard Reuter, ex-CEO of Dai with several pro the su their country after reunification In their Manifesto, they insisted that any concept for a sensible future needs to integrate the notion of renouncing (Verzicht) and sharing as opposed to growing expectations and their export through economic aid to Third World countries See Ein Manifest: Weil das Land sich ndern e), Reinbeck: Rowohlt Verlag, 1992

Jean-Marie Guhenno La Fin de la Dmocratie Paris: Flammarion, 1993

Edmund Carpenter They Becae and Dienstfrey/Ballantine, 1970

Nathaniel Hawthorne Earth's Holocaust, in The Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co, 1959

George Steiner The end of bookishness? in Times Literary Supplement, July 8-14, 1988

”To read classically er with the medieval chained library or with books held as treasures in certain monastic and princely institutions The book became a domestic object owned by its user, accessible at his will for re-reading This access in turn comprised private space, of which the personal libraries of Erash difficult to define, was the acquisition of periods of private silence” (p 754)

Thomas Robert Malthus An Essay On the Principle of Population, 1798, in The Works of Tholey and David Souden, editors London: W Pickering, 1986

Mark Twain (Sahorn Clemens) The Annotated Huckleberry Finn: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn With introduction, notes, and bibliography by Michael P Hearn New York: CN

Potter and Crown Publishers, 1981

”Twain drives hoh Huck's illiterate silence” (p 101) ”Thus Twain brings into focus the trap of literacy There is a whole world in Huck Finn that is closed to those without literacy

They can't, for ironic example, read this marvelous work, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn And yet we nize a world rich with superstition and folklore, with adventure and beauty, that rehtly chained to letters” (p 105)

George Gilder Life After Television: The Co Transformation of Media and American Life New York: Norton, 1992

Neil Posty New York: Knopf, 1992

America-The Epitome of the Civilization of Illiteracy

John Adauished An Policy, 1780 Coton, DC: Library of Congress, 1978

- The Adams-Jefferson: the Coail and John Adams (Lester J Cappon, editor) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959

Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber The Ae Trans

Robert Steel With a foreword by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr New York: Atheneu Tide of Illiteracy in the USA, in The Washi+ngton Post, 1985

”Whatever else land in the 17th century, it is a paramount fact that they were dedicated and skillful readers It is to be understood that the Bible was the central reading matter in all households, for these people were Protestants who shared Luther's belief that printing was 'God's highest and extremest act of Grace, whereby the business of the Gospel is driven forward' But reading for God's sake was not their solebooks into their homes”

Lauran Paine Captain John Smith and the Jamestown Story London: R Hale, 1973