Subject: United States › Intellectual life

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• The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the… by A. J. Jacobs (2,391 copies)
• The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom (1,855 copies)
• The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand (1,206 copies)
• Love Your God With All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the… by J. P. Moreland (443 copies)
• Fit Bodies Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don't Think and What… by Os Guinness (273 copies)
• The Peabody Sisters by Megan Marshall (196 copies)
• The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs by Daniel Odier (178 copies)
• Vladimir Nabokov : The American Years by Brian Boyd (171 copies)
• True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics by Christopher Lasch (160 copies)
• Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American… by Edmund Wilson (148 copies)
• Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of… by Michael R. LeGault (143 copies)
• American Studies by Louis Menand (141 copies)
• Giants and Dwarfs : Essays 1960-1990 by Allan Bloom (128 copies)
• The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since… by George H. Nash (122 copies)
• American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of… by F. O. Matthiessen (120 copies)
• A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and… by Rachel Cohen (119 copies)
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Country: The People and places in… by William Anderson (104 copies)
• North Toward Home by Willie Morris (102 copies)
• The World of Washington Irving by Van Wyck Brooks (102 copies)
• Novel Destinations by Shannon Mckenna Schmidt (97 copies)
• The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson by Daniel J. Boorstin (96 copies)
• Teacher in America by Jacques Barzun (94 copies)
• remembered rapture: the writer at work by bell hooks (94 copies)
• No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of… by T. J. Jackson Lears (92 copies)
• The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American… by Gertrude Himmelfarb (90 copies)
• The American Mind by Henry Steele Commager (88 copies)
• Reading Myself and Others by Philip Roth (84 copies)
• The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of… by Russell Jacoby (83 copies)
• A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious… by Alex Beam (82 copies)
• Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip Mining of American… by Katharine Washburn (80 copies)
• The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and… by Lawrence W. Levine (79 copies)
• Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and… by Herbert J. Gans (76 copies)
• On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and… by Gertrude Himmelfarb (73 copies)
• The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s… by Roger Kimball (72 copies)
• The cultural life of the American Colonies, 1607-1763 by Louis B. Wright (72 copies)
• The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800 (Main Currents in American… by Vernon Louis Parrington (70 copies)
• The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense… by Ron Rosenbaum (69 copies)
• The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook Volume I:… by David A. Hollinger (68 copies)
• On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American… by Alfred Kazin (68 copies)
• Emerson among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait by Carlos Baker (68 copies)
• Authentically Black by John McWhorter (64 copies)
• American Writers at Home by J.D. Mcclatchy (61 copies)
• The Little House Guidebook by William Anderson (61 copies)
• Sontag and Kael: Opposites Attract Me by Craig Seligman (60 copies)
• Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought by Jonathan Rauch (57 copies)
• The Enlightenment in America by Henry F. May (57 copies)
• Culture As History by Warren Susman (57 copies)
• Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking With 101 Ways to Reason… by Steve Allen (56 copies)
• Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca by Alexander Star (56 copies)
• Main Currents in American Thought: Volume 2 - The Romantic… by Vernon L. Parrington (55 copies)

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