"The country that originated many of the 20th century's most important scientific advances now demonizes its scientists in the ""21st,"" while dumbing down its youth with anti-Darwin propaganda. At once serious and ""satirical,"" Tirman offers an ""insightful,"" ""unabashed,"" ""entertaining,"" and distressing look at where we've gone terribly ""wrong,"" from the destruction of the environment to the promotion of abhorrent personal health and eating habits to the ""wussification"" of the once-free press - an alternately admonishing and amusing call to arms for patriotic Blue America."