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A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition
by Alex Beam
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- Title A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books
- Author Alex Beam
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 245
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher PublicAffairs, New York
- Date 2009-10
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781586487768 / 1586487760
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5 x 0.7 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 1.78 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.91
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This is the story of great books; not just any great books, mind you, but the 54 volumes launched in Chicago in 1952 as the Great Books of the Western World. In the course of just over 200 brisk pages, Alex Beam explains how, and why, such an entity came into being. Beam locates the origin of the Great Books project in two late-19th-century developments: middle-class anxiety about what the newly literate working classes were reading, and the introduction of specialisation in the university curriculum. At the very moment that Charles Eliot was transforming Harvard from a gentleman's college into a modern university, he launched Harvard Classics, a popular version of the broad education he had argued was obsolete.
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