Bad Or, the Dumbing of America

Paul Fussell. Touchstone Books, $11 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-671-79228-2

With deadly wit and a nose for fakery, Fussell takes aim at the bad, things promoted as highly desirable that are in fact trivial; his targets are arrayed in A-to-Z format, each dispensed with a single mini-essay. (Oct.)

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