Great books and the canon wars with Tim Lacy

from American Campus Podcast · host Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

Tim Lacy lets us in on all things Great Books: champions, curriculums, and controversies.Tim Lacy. 2013. The Dream of a Democratic Culture: Mortimer J. Adler and the Great Books Idea. Palgrave Macmillan.Daniel Wickberg. 2024. A History of American Thought 1860–2000: Thinking the Modern. Routledge.Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. 2019. Ideas that Made America: A Brief History. Oxford University Press.Earl Shorris. 1997. New American Blues: A Journey Through Poverty to Democracy. WW Norton.Leo Tolstoy. 1867. War and Peace.Learn more about the Society for US Intellectual HistoryText the show here!Support the showBrowse the American Campus bookshelf

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