Allan Bloom

About The Author

Allan Bloom was Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College and co-director of the John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy at the University of Chicago. He taught at Yale, University of Paris, University of Toronto, Tel Aviv University, and Cornell, where he was the recipient of the Clark Teaching Award in 1967. He died in 1992.

Books by Allan Bloom

Closing of the American Mind

How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

By Allan Bloom
Afterword by Andrew Ferguson / Foreword by Saul Bellow
The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition.
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