A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books by Alex Beam

A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books

Alex Beam

245 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction education history reflective slow-paced
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Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial “dead white men,” are cannon fodder in the culture wars. But in the 1950s and 1960s, they were a pop culture phenomenon. The Great Books of Western Civilization, fifty-four volumes...

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