The Closing of the American Mind：How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

AllanBloomisProfessorintheCommitteeonSocialThoughtandtheCollegeandco-directoroftheJohnM.OlinCenterforInquiryintotheTheoryandPracticeofDemocracyattheUniversityofChicago.HehastaughtatYale,UniversityofParis,UniversityofToronto,TelAvivUniversity,andCornell,wherehewastherecipientoftheClarkTeachingAwardin1967.HisotherbooksarePlato'sRepublic(translatorandeditor),PoliticsandtheArts:Rousseau'sLettertod'Alembert(translatorandeditor),Rousseau'sEmile(translatorandeditor),andShakespeare'sPolitics(withHarryV.Jaffa).HelivesinChicago.