Louis Menand – New York Review Books
From the bestselling author of The Metaphysical Club, brilliant illuminations of America yesterday and today. At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, and of the anti-Semitism in T. S. Eliot's writing. He reveals the reasons for the remarkable commercial successes of William Shawn's New Yorker and William Paley's CBS.
American Studies [Book]
Has American higher education become a dinosaur? Why, in short, are problems that should be easy for universities to solve so intractable? The answer, Louis Menand argues, is that the institutional structure and the educational philosophy of higher education have remained the same for 100 years.
The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University (Issues of Our Time) [Book]
Louis Menand Latest Articles
The Free World - Louis Menand with Geoffrey Harpham
Menand brings pragmatists of the Metaphysical Club to life
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon
Some Frames for Goffman - Louis Menand, 2009