American Heroes and Hero Worship   (book)

American Heroes and Hero Worship

Celebrities, public personalities, heroes, whatever you want to call them. Viewing someone as more than a regular person, as a Hero or as someone with a higher understanding has never appealed to me. It seems to leave one open to specific applications of Plato's Truth Virus until the individual is left with no valuable knowledge of his own. I don't really know what this book is about, but its author, Gerald White Johnson -- a respected journalist, seems to me to be in a great position to comment on the phenomenon.