"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40

Jacques Barzun

Author of From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

Includes the names: J. Barzun, Jaques Barzun, Jacque Barzun, Jacques Barzun, Barzun Jacques, Jaqcues Barzun, Jocques Barzun, Jacques Barzum, Jacques Martin Barzun, Jacques & Others Barzun ... (see complete list), Jacquez ( editor ) Barzun

Ratings statistics

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Title	Copies	Reviews	Ratings	Average	Median	Std. dev.
From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life	2,136	25	221	4.10	4.00	0.88
Simple & Direct	248	3	24	4.17	4.00	0.49
The Modern Researcher	472	4	22	3.98	4.00	0.67
The House of Intellect	260		18	4.17	4.00	0.65
A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works	236		17	4.03	4.00	0.81
Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage	179		16	4.28	4.00	0.71
The Best American Essays 2002	155	1	14	4.04	4.00	0.30
Baseball Reader	65		13	4.04	4.00	0.75
The Use and Abuse of Art	68	2	11	4.05	4.00	0.96
The Culture We Deserve : A Critique of Disenlightenment	103	1	10	3.45	3.50	0.69
A Stroll with William James	83	1	10	4.35	4.50	0.78
A catalogue of crime	76	2	8	4.63	5.00	0.70
Classic, Romantic, and Modern (Phoenix Books)	98	1	7	3.36	4.00	1.71
Berlioz and His Century: An Introduction to the Age of Romanticism	57	2	7	4.21	4.00	0.52
Pleasures of Music: An Anthology of Writing About Music and Musicians from Cellini to Bernard Shaw (Phoenix Book)	46	1	7	3.57	3.00	1.15
Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning	59		5	3.90	4.00	0.66
The Best American Essays 1990	73		5	3.70	4.00	0.40
Teacher in America	132		5	4.00	4.00	0.84
On Writing, Editing, and Publishing: Essays Explicative and Hortatory (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishin	52		4	3.38	3.50	0.65
Of human freedom	5		3	4.00	4.00
Clio and the Doctors Psychohistory Quanto	31		3	3.67	4.00	0.47
A Word or Two Before You Go . . . .	40		3	4.00	4.00	0.82
Race: A Study In Superstition	18		2	4.50	4.50	0.50
The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going	38		2	3.50	3.50	0.50
Music in American life	13		2	3.75	3.75	0.75
Classic stories of crime and detection	3		1	2.00	2.00
God's Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love Spiced with a Few Harsh Words	25		1	4.00	4.00
The Energies of Art: Studies of Authors, Classic and Modern	14		1	4.00	4.00
The Selected Writings of John Jay Chapman	13		1	2.00	2.00
The Dictionary Of Accepted Ideas x	3		1	5.00	5.00
Science: The Glorious Entertainment.	30		1	4.00	4.00
An Essay on French Verse: For Readers of English Poetry	15		1	3.00	3.00
Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980	14		1	3.00	3.00
From "God's Country and Mine" (Short Story)	1
From Dawn To Decadence 1500 To the Prese	1
"The Book, the Bibliographer and the Absence of Mind"	2
European Writers: The Romantic Century, Volume 6, Victor Hugo to Theodor Fontane	3
Bibliophile of the Future: His Complaints About the Twentieth Century (Maury A. Bromsen lecture in humanistic bibliography)	2
A birthday tribute to Rex Stout, December 1, 1965	1
Romanticism and the modern ego	2
Un Paseo con William James	1
The house of intellect by Barzun, Jacques	1
The French Race: Theories of Its Oriigins and Their Social and Political Implications, Prior to the Revolution	1
Berlioz and the Romantic Century: v.1	1
Berlioz and the romantic century: v.2	1
What man has built: An introduction (Great ages of man; a history of the world's cultures)	11
From Dawn to Decadence, Part 1	4
From Dawn to Decadence, Volume 2 (Unabridged)	2
Is Democratic Theory for Export (Morgenthau Memorial Leture on Ethics and Foreign Policy, No. 6)	2
A Note on the Inadequacy of Poe as a Proofreader and of His Editors as French Scholars	1
A book of prefaces to fifty classics of crime fiction, 1900-1950	3
The Delights of Detection	15
Burke & Hare: The resurrection men (The History of medicine series)	3
The Interpretation of History	2
Lincoln's philosophic vision	1
Essays on Walter Prescott Webb and the teaching of history	2
Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass	1
Visual outline of English history	1