AUTHOR OF THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND

Three years ago, The Closing of the

American Mind became the number￾one national best-seller, the most

talked-about book of its time. Now

Allan Bloom returns with a far-rang￾ing volume of essays on teachers,

books, and education. With the un￾conventional wisdom that made

his earlier book an intellectual sensa￾tion, Bloom explains why he is nei￾ther a conservative nor an elitist;

criticizes current liberal theories of

justice; praises such contemporary

thinkers as Leo Strauss, Raymond

Aron, and Alexandre Kojéve; ana￾lyzes the shortcomings of the modern

university; and interprets the works

of Shakespeare, Swift, Rousseau,

and Plato.

Written with the passion, wit, and

insight that have already fired the

imagination of the reading public,

these essays confirm Allan Bloom as

America’s boldest and most contro￾versial educator.