Over at the socialist magazine Jacobin, journalist Liza Featherstone reviews Roosevelt Montás’s Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation. Here is a taste: Montás is a voice in an ideological...
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Roosevelt Montas’s “heartfelt defense of the Eurocentricity of a Great Books curriculum”
Historian Steve Mintz‘s recent column at Inside Higher Ed reviews Roosevelt Montas‘s forthcoming book Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation. Here is a taste: For far too long, he...
Tim Lacy’s New Book: “The Dream of a Democratic Culture”
Anyone who travels through the history blogosphere knows the name Tim Lacy. Tim is an active online writer and one of the founders of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History. In fact, I would go so far as to say that...
Books That Shaped America
Over at U.S. Intellectual History, Tim Lacy reflects on the Library Congress exhibit: “Books That Shaped America.” The exhibit includes 88 books that have been important to Americans. It is based on an online survey in which participants are asked...