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Louis Menand

Author of The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

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Works by Louis Menand

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America 2,113 copies, 21 reviews
Pragmatism: A Reader (Editor) 254 copies
The Best American Essays 2004 (Editor; Introduction) 253 copies, 1 review
American Studies 233 copies, 3 reviews
The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University 157 copies, 6 reviews
Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context 28 copies
The Future of Academic Freedom 14 copies
The rise of the research university : a sourcebook 4 copies
William James in Brazil 2 copies
Louise Glück, Robert Pinsky, poetry, James Dinerstein, sculpture /… 1 copy
'An American Prodigy' in NYRB, 2 Dec 1993 [review of Brent's 'Charles… 1 copy
'Silence, Exile, Punning: James Joyce's chance encounters' in The New… 1 copy
[ARTICLE] The Ph.D. Problem 1 copy

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To the Finland Station (Foreword, some editions) 973 copies, 17 reviews
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (Contributor) 596 copies, 5 reviews
The Best American Essays 2007 (Contributor) 420 copies, 10 reviews
The Liberal Imagination (Introduction, some editions) 370 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Essays 2008 (Contributor) 244 copies, 4 reviews
Against the American Grain: Essays on the Effects of Mass Culture (Introduction) 197 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Essays 2002 (Contributor) 189 copies, 1 review
The Best American Political Writing 2005 (Contributor) 30 copies
Essays on the Closing of the American Mind (Contributor) 20 copies

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