Does it matter which books college students read? Indeed it does, contends the author. Atlas presents a trenchant assessment of America at its educational crossroads, and asserts that whatr in shaping Buyer's Choice
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Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; First Norton Edition. Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket in FINE Condition. Mylar jacket cover. Jacket not price-clipped. Small Octavo.157 pages. We Are What We Read. An examination of the debate raging in academia over the literary canon argues that what students read has implications for their development as individuals and their ability to establish consensus on national issues. The author gives voice to both sides of the debate about what literature is to comprise our schools' core curricula--"are the "Great Books" programs that include such epics as Homer and Shakespeare and Locke fostering an idea of the white male and his ideas as supreme? Should the schools of the western world include more books from places like Asia and the Middle East? Do other races and women in the USA have their struggles and hopes reflected in the "Great Books"? --" from a review). This book may give you a better understanding of what is at stake and how important this is for an educated public, whatever conclusions you may come to yourself. 157 pages. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 1992, Norton Publishers., New York and London.
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New. 0393034135. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED-157 pages. From Library Journal: "Since the 1987 publication of Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, the question of whether that body of works referred to as either the Classics or Great Books should be required reading for college students has divided academia. Journalist and biographer Atlas ( Delmore Schwartz ), who covered the debates as waged between traditionalists and multiculturalists for the New York Times, here revises an overview of curriculum controversies at major universities that he wrote for Whittle Communications' Larger Agenda series in 1990per BIP. He traveled to Duke, Harvard and Chicago to interview professors and examine course catalogues in search of 'our educational mandate. ' He contributes a refreshing voice to a discussion dominated by academics, evincing a 'spirit of curiosity' where dry polemics are the rule. But he offers little in the way of original thought, nor is his argument in favor of the 'canon of Great Books' unified. Denser, more closely reasoned new books on the subject include David Bromwich's Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking (Forecasts, Aug. 10) and Beyond the Culture Wars by Gerald Graff (Forecasts, Sept. 7)." First Norton edition so stated. --with a bonus offer--
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