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Louis Menand
Louis Menand, professor of English at Harvard University, is the author of "The Metaphysical Club," which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in History. A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. show more

Louis Menand, professor of English at Harvard University, is the author of "The Metaphysical Club," which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in History. A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Birth date: January 21, 1952
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N.A. Ratnayake
N.A. Ratnayake rated it 13 years ago
I cannot apply a sixth star to this book, which prompts me to seriously consider re-normalizing all other ratings in my library to accommodate the fact that I was forced by the design of this site to apply only five.The tone and vocabulary are fairly intellectual and elevated, and as a consequence t...
Literary Sara
Literary Sara rated it 14 years ago
This is a must-read for anyone currently or formerly teaching in the humanities. Menand gives a history of general education and the evolution of how universities have come to decide what is "higher education;" as someone who has tried to form a teaching philosophy in the ever-changing landscape of...
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