Cultural Literacy Audiobook By E. D. Hirsch, James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett cover art

Cultural Literacy

What Every American Needs To Know

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Cultural Literacy

By: E. D. Hirsch, James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett
Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
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In this forceful manifesto, Hirsch argues that children in the U.S. are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. Includes 5,000 essential facts to know.

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This book is great in that it shares the concept of cultural subject matter and how critical it is for each American to possess. An education in many subjects at a surface level will aptly serve functional adults. What is critical to understand is that each individual will hopefully engage in more in depth studies of a vast number of subjects over time which will truly allow them to achieve cultural literacy

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