cover image The Closing of the American Mind

The Closing of the American Mind

Allan Bloom. Simon & Schuster, $16 (392pp) ISBN 978-0-671-65715-4

This work by a University of Chicago professor was a bestseller in cloth. According to PW, ""marred by the author's biases, this jeremiad laments the decay of the humanities, the decline of the family and students' spiritual rootlessness and unconnectedness to traditions.'' (May)