Closing of the American Mind
By Allan Bloom
(Simon & Schuster, Paperback, 9780671657154, 400pp.)
Publication Date: May 15, 1988
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The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change.
Allan Bloom was Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College and co-director of the John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy at the University of Chicago. He taught at Yale, University of Paris, University of Toronto, Tel Aviv University, and Cornell, where he was the recipient of the Clark Teaching Award in 1967. He died in 1992.
The New York Times Book Review An unparalleled reflection on today's intellectual and moral climate....That rarest of documents, a genuinely profound book.
The New York Times Remarkable....hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy.
William Kristol The Wall Street Journal Brilliant....No other book combines such shrewd insights into our current state....No other book is at once so lively and so deep, so witty and so thoughtful, so outrageous and so sensible, so amusing and so chilling....An extraordinary book.
S. Frederick Starr The Washington Post Book World Rich and absorbing....A grand tour of the American mind.
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