# Illiterate America

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- Book: [Illiterate America](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-kozol/illiterate-america) ([Illiterate America.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-kozol/illiterate-america.md))
- Authors: [Jonathan Kozol](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-kozol)
- Publisher: Doubleday
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-0780-057-2
- Published: 2011-11-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

It is startling and it is shaming: in a country that prides itself on being among the most enlightened in the world, 25 million American adults cannot read the poison warnings on a can of pesticide, a...