AUTHOR OF THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MINDThree years ago, The Closing of theAmerican Mind became the number￾one national best-seller, the mosttalked-about book of its time. NowAllan Bloom returns with a far-rang￾ing volume of essays on teachers,books, and education. With the un￾conventional wisdom that madehis earlier book an intellectual sensa￾tion, Bloom explains why he is nei￾ther a conservative nor an elitist;criticizes current liberal theories ofjustice; praises such contemporarythinkers as Leo Strauss, RaymondAron, and Alexandre Kojéve; ana￾lyzes the shortcomings of the modernuniversity; and interprets the worksof Shakespeare, Swift, Rousseau,and Plato.Written with the passion, wit, andinsight that have already fired theimagination of the reading public,these essays confirm Allan Bloom asAmerica’s boldest and most contro￾versial educator.

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