Allan Bloom (1930-1992) was a professor of social thought at the University of Chicago. He was the author of many books, including the number one bestseller The Closing of the American Mind. Adam Kirsch is a poet, critic, and an editor of the Wall Street Journal's weekend review section. His work appears regularly in the New York Review of Books, New Yorker, Tablet, and other publications. He is the author of three books of poems and several books of criticism and biography.
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More than just a huge #1 bestseller, this is one of the great and vitally important books of our time. Allan Bloom, a professor of social thought at the University of Chicago and a noted translator of Plato and Rousseau, argues that the social and politic... SEE MORE