Closing of the American Mind

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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 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.

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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 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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 392
Edition: 1st Touchstone Edition
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 01 Apr 1988
ISBN 10: 0671657151
ISBN 13: 9780671657154

Media Reviews

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.

The New York Times

Remarkable....hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy.

S. Frederick Starr

The Washington Post Book World

Rich and absorbing....A grand tour of the American mind.

The New York Times Book Review

An unparalleled reflection on today's intellectual and moral climate....That rarest of documents, a genuinely profound book.

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.

--William Kristol, The Wall Street Journal

Rich and absorbing. . . . A grand tour of the American mind.

-- The Washington Post Book World