David Denby, New York city movie critic and journalist, entered Columbia University in 1991 to take the university’s famous course in and “Great Books. and ” This is the course that, in preserving the notion of the western canon without apology to multiculturalists and feminists, has been an unlikely focus of America’s culture war in recent years. Where other universities have caved in and revised or enlarged the canon, Columbia’s course has remained intact. Denby’s intention as a writer and protagonist in the culture war was to record the experience and the personal impact of the course. He has produced a cry from the heart in favor of the classics of western civilization, relaying with infectious enthusiasm how literature touched his soul.

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