Allan Bloom, Author Simon & Schuster $22.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-70777-4
Collected here by University of Chicago professor Bloom (author of the controversial bestseller Closing of the American Mind ) are 19 impressive, previously published essays. Scholarly but accessible to serious, determined general readers are 11...
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Allan Bloom, Author, Saul Bellow, Introduction by Simon & Schuster $18.45 (400p) ISBN 978-0-671-47990-9
Plato said that music was a barbaric art form, and Bloom, translator of Plato's Republic, charges that rock 'n' roll's sole attraction is a ""barbaric appeal to sexual desire.'' This University of Chicago professor claims that racial segregation...
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Allan Bloom, Author, Saul Bellow, Foreword by Simon & Schuster $16 (392p) 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...
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