From Publishers Weekly
Citing examples of specialized constituencies using unconventional approaches to higher education, this controversial study argues that "yesterday's radical is today's tenured professor or academic dean." "To the debate awakened by Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind and E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy , this sobering assessment is a pointed contribution," PW said.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Review
A stinging account...provokes constant reflection and occasional laughter. (Roger Shattuck, author of The Banquet Years )
A bravado performance of critical journalism...vivid, amusing, dismaying. (Robert Alter Newsday )
All persons serious about education should see it. (Allan Bloom, author of The Closing of the American Mind )
A withering critique. (Jonathan Yardley Washington Post Book World )
Mr. Kimball names his enemies precisely...this book will breed fistfights. (The New York Times )
A bravado performance of critical journalism...vivid, amusing, dismaying. (Robert Alter Newsday )
All persons serious about education should see it. (Allan Bloom, author of The Closing of the American Mind )
A withering critique. (Jonathan Yardley Washington Post Book World )
Mr. Kimball names his enemies precisely...this book will breed fistfights. (The New York Times )
Book Description
In this substantially revised edition of his now-classic critique of contemporary academic life, Mr. Kimball shows how politics has corrupted our higher education. Mr. Kimball names his enemies precisely....This book will breed fistfights. --Roger Rosenblatt, New York Times Book Review. A withering critique. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
About the Author
Roger Kimball is managing editor of the New Criterion and an art critic for the London Spectator. His other books include Lives of the Mind, Experiments Against Reality, and The Long March. He lives in South Norwalk, Connecticut.
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