Building a Bridge to the 18th CenturyBy: Neil Postman In Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, acclaimed cultural critic Neil Postman offers a cure for the hysteria and hazy values of the postmodern world. Postman shows us how to reclaim that balance between mind and machine in a dazzling celebration of the accomplishments of the Enlightenment from Jefferson's representative democracy to Locke's deductive reasoning to Rousseau's demand that the care and edification of children be