Ivan R. Dee
Pages: 384
Trim: 5¾ x 8½
978-1-56663-796-1 • Paperback • September 2008 • $16.95 • (£12.99)
Roger Kimball is managing editor of the New Criterion and an art critic for the London Spectator. His other books include Lives of the Mind, Experiments Against Reality, and The Long March. He lives in South Norwalk, Connecticut.
A stinging account...provokes constant reflection and occasional laughter.
— Roger Shattuck, author of The Banquet Years
A bravado performance of critical journalism...vivid, amusing, dismaying.
— Robert Alter; Newsday
All persons serious about education should see it.
— Allan Bloom, author of The Closing of the American Mind
A withering critique.
— Jonathan Yardley; The Instrumentalist
Mr. Kimball names his enemies precisely...this book will breed fistfights.
— The New York Times
The now-classic critique of academic life in the service of ideology