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

by Beam, Alex

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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1586484877
ISBN 13: 9781586484873
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Date published: 2008
Pages: 245
Size: 6 x 8.75 x 1 inches
Weight: 0.98 pounds

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On Nov 4 2008, MaxWeismann said:

"The subtitle should have read, Every Negative Fact and Innuendo I Could Dredge Up

Although he was not particularly unkind to me in the book, I found virtually every page to be a smart-alecky and snide diatribe of the worst order against the Great Books, Adler, Hutchins, et al. Plus the book is replete with errors of commission and omission.

As an effective antidote, I prescribe Robert Hutchins' pithy essay, The Great Conversation.

If the Great Books crusade is as bleak as Beam purports, then happily, not many will read his invective book.

Max Weismann,

President and co-founder with Mortimer Adler, Center for the Study of The Great Ideas

Chairman, The Great Books Academy"