“IT MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK OF ITS KIND BY AN AMERICAN SINCE WORLD WAR II.”

—Chicago Tribune

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND

Allan Bloom

“Commands one’s attention and concentrates one’s mind more effectively than any other book I can think of in the past five years.”

—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times

“A penetrating look at the state of modern American society . . . filled to overflowing with trenchant insights into American life. . . . Required reading for every thoughtful citizen concerned with the decline of American society. . . . It will challenge you to think.”

—The New American

“Essential reading for anyone concerned with the state of liberal education in this society.”

—The New York Times Book Review

“Important and controversial . . . could—and should—serve as a major resource in the effort to rethink the very nature and purpose of American higher education.”

—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

“Every chapter, if not every page, offers something delightful, something puzzling, something outrageous.”

—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Elegant, passionate, wide-ranging. . . . His prose is rhapsodic, compelling, personal and reassuring. He writes from a deep love of history and intellectual tradition.”

—Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Graceful and grave . . . a serious-minded, sinewy and wise work.”

—Virginia Pilot & The Ledger-Star

“Has the density of fiction, the sting of satire, the lucidity of philosophy . . . all the compact fluidity and dazzle of Emerson’s essays.”

—The Christian Science Monitor Book Review

 

How Higher Education Has
Failed Democracy and
Impoverished the Souls of
Today’s Students