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Jacques Barzun's century.(Literature)
THE REPUTATION of Jacques Barzun (who was born on November 30, 1907) achieved a remarkable boost when his massive and scholarly book From Dawn to Decadence appeared in 2000 and quickly became a surprising best-seller. This was not entirely a new experience for Barzun because he had been touched by the fickle flame of popularity in 1956 when he featured on the cover of Time magazine. However, his profile waned during the 1960s when his brand of deep but politically disinterested scholarship fell out of fashion.
In the author's note, Barzun advised that he set out to be "selective and critical rather than neutral and encyclopedic". Those who have tried to read this ...
- Wadsworth Publishes The Modern Researcher, Sixth Edition by Jacques Barzun and...
- Press release article from: Business Wire October 14, 2003 700+ words
...career in history: Jacques Barzun in Modern Cultural...Modern Researcher. Jacques Barzun and Henry F. Graff...books to his credit. Jacques Barzun's latest is From...on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges (TSX...
- The power of Barzun.(APPRECIATION)(Jacques Barzun)
- Magazine article from: National Review Aeschliman, M.D. November 19, 2007 700+ words
...and vulgar tendency has been Jacques Barzun, who turns 100 in November and...Philosophical Society awards an annual Jacques Barzun Prize for an outstanding book...visual and musical, in Paris and New York, since his upbringing in Paris...
- WHAT JACQUES BARZUN BELIEVES, MAYBE.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Neuhaus, Richard December 1, 2000 700+ words
...pleasure that our reviewer, John J. Reilly, takes in Jacques Barzun's big new book From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western...minds and souls over these five hundred years, where does Jacques Barzun stand? What are the core convictions that anchor and direct...
- A Rich and Tangled Web - Jacques Barzun shows that the West is more varied,...
- Magazine article from: World and I GRESS, DAVID November 1, 2000 700+ words
...FROM DAWN TO DECADENCE 500 Years of Western Cultural Life Jacques Barzun Publisher:NewYork: HarperCollins, 2000 877 pp...exhilarating, and spirited work of a wise man and great scholar, Jacques Barzun. Seven adult decades, that is; Barzun is in his nineties...
- A Real-Life Renaissance Man: At 92, scholar Jacques Barzun has written his...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Gates, David May 22, 2000 700+ words
...training before taking on "From Dawn to Decadence," Jacques Barzun's intensely engaging history of Western culture since...Dawn to Decadance: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life Jacques Barzun HarperCollins 877 pages. $36
- For Jacques Barzun on his centennial.(Findings)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: American Scholar January 1, 2008 700+ words
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.--JACQUES BARZUN We salute Professor Barzun on his birthday for his many contributions to American education, scholarship, and letters. His connection...
- Closing time? Jacques Barzun on Western culture.(Review)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Kimball, Roger June 1, 2000 700+ words
...be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair. -- Cyril Connolly, 1949 The historian Jacques Barzun has been a voice of moderation and sanity in American intellectual life for some six decades. Born in France in 1907...
- Aha! Caught You Reading: Jacques Barzun and the Goblet of Fire, and other...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Quindlen, Anna July 17, 2000 700+ words
...Last year the collection "The Best American Short Stories" sold just as well as "Dilbert Gives You the Business." Jacques Barzun, perhaps this country's best-known humanities scholar, has a new book, "From Dawn to Decadence," with the surefire...
Source: HighBeam Research, Jacques Barzun's century.(Literature)