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• The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the… by A. J. Jacobs (2,393 copies)
• The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom (1,856 copies)
• The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand (1,208 copies)
• Love Your God With All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the… by J. P. Moreland (446 copies)
• The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs by Daniel Odier (178 copies)
• Vladimir Nabokov : The American Years by Brian Boyd (171 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 (123 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)
• remembered rapture: the writer at work by bell hooks (93 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)
• 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 Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense… by Ron Rosenbaum (69 copies)
• On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American… by Alfred Kazin (68 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)
• 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)
• No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture by Andrew Ross (51 copies)
• Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire by Anne Norton (50 copies)
• Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and… by Norman Podhoretz (46 copies)
• Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver by Raymond Carver (44 copies)
• I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of… by William Carlos Williams (43 copies)
• The end of American innocence : a study of the first years… by Henry Farnham May (42 copies)
• Dumbth and 81 Ways to Make Americans Smarter by Steve Allen (40 copies)
• All Ears by Dennis Cooper (38 copies)
• The Ayn Rand Cult by Jeff Walker (37 copies)
• Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of… by Alex Abella (32 copies)
• The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of… by John Patrick Diggins (30 copies)
• Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926 by Steven Conn (29 copies)
• Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social… by Richard H. Pells (28 copies)
• Impostors in the Temple: The Decline of the American… by Martin Anderson (28 copies)
• The Twilight of the Intellectuals by Hilton Kramer (27 copies)
• Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon by Carl Rollyson (27 copies)
• The Superfluous Men: Critics of American Culture, 1900-1945 by George Santayana (26 copies)
• The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American… by Richard H. Pells (26 copies)
• The Cold War & the University: Toward an Intellectual… by Noam Chomsky (26 copies)
• The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American… by Miles Orvell (25 copies)
• Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry (The University… by Robert Pinsky (25 copies)

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