The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students by Allan Bloom

The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

Allan Bloom

402 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction education philosophy politics reflective slow-paced
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The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that "hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy" (The New York Times)--now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary e...

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