# 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: Plume
- ISBN: 978-04-5226-203-4
- Pages: 288
- Published: 1986-03-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## 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...