"208"^^ . . "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) is a book by educator Neil Postman. The book's origins lay in a talk Postman gave to the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1984. He was participating in a panel on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and the contemporary world."@en . "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business"@en . . "978-0143036531" .