The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

The Closing of the American Mind

Allan Bloom with Saul Bellow

393 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 ed...

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