Amusing Ourselves to Death format

I have an appreciation for the structure of Amusing Ourselves to Death, which I only noticed by accident. I was reading a PDF of the book and I accidentally lost my place in the first chapter, but I had remembered the last word I read happened to be “Jews”,  I had found the word but kept reading in the wrong place. I didn't notice it at the time because it didn't seem off to me and just seemed like an extension of what I was reading.  I ended up being so pulled into the chapter I accidentally read the 8th chapter. This gave me the impression that his structure is more aligned with an essay compared to other books I have read. The structure in my perspective can be summarized as him giving a point and proving it with anecdotes. This gives each chapter the nature of being self-contained and makes each chapter distinctive and harder to confuse and mix up. In the overall grand scheme of things his ideas he portrays in each chapter all line up to a greater message then they would on their own, just like an essay. His structure is also aligned more with an essay due to its direct nature and only stepping aside to explain his references that prove a point. I have never personally seen anything like Postman’s structure, which is why it stuck out so much to me, in any form of medium. I think that he choose his style to be like an essay because it makes it look like an intellectual work. As most essays are of intellectual value, he chooses that format to get his ideas across. What else is notable about Postman’s structure? Do you like his structure? Do you know of any similar authors that use this structure?