Subject: United States › Intellectual life

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• The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs (3,046 copies)
• The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom (2,246 copies)
• The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand (1,468 copies)
• Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the… by J. P. Moreland (543 copies)
• Fit Bodies Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don't Think and What… by Os Guinness (320 copies)
• The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American… by Megan Marshall (232 copies)
• Vladimir Nabokov : The American Years by Brian Boyd (215 copies)
• The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs by Daniel Odier (215 copies)
• True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics by Christopher Lasch (203 copies)
• Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American… by Edmund Wilson (184 copies)
• Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of… by Michael R. LeGault (172 copies)
• American Studies by Louis Menand (171 copies)
• American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of… by F. O. Matthiessen (156 copies)
• The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since… by George H. Nash (156 copies)
• Giants and Dwarfs : Essays 1960-1990 by Allan David Bloom (151 copies)
• A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious… by Alex Beam (138 copies)
• A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and… by Rachel Cohen (138 copies)
• Novel Destinations by Shannon Mckenna Schmidt (135 copies)
• North Toward Home by Willie Morris (131 copies)
• The World of Washington Irving by Van Wyck Brooks (129 copies)
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Country: The People and places in… by William Anderson (129 copies)
• The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American… by Gertrude Himmelfarb (121 copies)
• The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson by Daniel J. Boorstin (119 copies)
• Teacher in America by Jacques Barzun (119 copies)
• No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of… by T. J. Jackson Lears (117 copies)
• The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought… by Henry Steele Commager (108 copies)
• remembered rapture: the writer at work by bell hooks (104 copies)
• Reading Myself and Others by Philip Roth (104 copies)
• The Opening of the American Mind by Lawrence W. Levine (99 copies)
• On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and… by Gertrude Himmelfarb (94 copies)
• The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of… by Russell Jacoby (93 copies)
• Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and… by Herbert Gans (90 copies)
• Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip Mining of American… by Katharine Washburn (90 copies)
• On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American… by Alfred Kazin (90 copies)
• Main Currents in American Thought: Volume 1 - The Colonial… by Vernon Louis Parrington (88 copies)
• Emerson among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait by Carlos Baker (87 copies)
• The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense… by Ron Rosenbaum (86 copies)
• The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas… by Kevin J. Hayes (84 copies)
• The Cultural Life of the American Colonies, 1607-1763 by Louis B. Wright (84 copies)
• The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume I: 1630-1865 by David A. Hollinger (81 copies)
• The Enlightenment in America by Henry F. May (80 copies)
• American Writers at Home by J.D. McClatchy (80 copies)
• The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s… by Roger Kimball (80 copies)
• The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook Volume… by David A. Hollinger (79 copies)
• Culture As History by Warren Susman (78 copies)
• The Little House Guidebook by William Anderson (76 copies)
• The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping… by Douglass Shand-Tucci (68 copies)
• Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking With 101 Ways to Reason… by Steve Allen (68 copies)
• The American Adam (Phoenix Books) by R. W. B. Lewis (68 copies)
• The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American… by David E. Shi (67 copies)

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