In this international bestseller, originally published in 1959, Jacques Barzun, acclaimed author of From Dawn to Decadence, takes on the whole intellectual -- or pseudo-intellectual -- world, attacking it for its betrayal of Intellect. "Intellect is despised and neglected," Barzun says, "yet intellectuals are well paid and riding high." He details this great betrayal in such areas as public administrations, communications, conversation and home life, education, business, and scholarship.
In this edition's new Preface, Jacques Barzun discussess the intense -- and controversial -- reaction the world had to The House of Intellect.

House of Intellect, The

Literature & Fiction

BARZUN, JACQUES

Essays & Correspondence

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Clothback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. How It Runs, Where It Is Going

The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going.

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A fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one's style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision guide the reader through the technique of making the written word clear and agreeable to read. Exercises, model passages both literary and casual, and hundreds of amusing examples of usage gone wrong show how to choose the right path to self-expression in forceful and distinctive words.

Simple & Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Science: The Glorious Entertainment by Barzun, Jacques

Science: The Glorious Entertainment

An annotated list of more than five thousand books, including novels, short story collections, histories of the genre, true crime tales, and Sherlock Holmes studies

A Catalogue of Crime

Taylor, Wendell Hertig

Catalogs & Directories

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A catalogue of crime

Analyzes the philosophical and psychological theories of William James and examines their contributions to the present state of Western civilization

A Stroll With William James

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

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Words, Language & Grammar

An annotated list of more than five thousand books, including novels, short story collections, histories of the genre, true crime tales, and Sherlock Holmes studies

A Catalogue of Crime: Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres

Business & Money

Education & Reference

"A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." — William Safire, New York Times
Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500.
Barzun describes what Western Man wrought from the Renaissance and Reformation down to the present in the double light of its own time and our pressing concerns. He introduces characters and incidents with his unusual literary style and grace, bringing to the fore those that have been forgotten or obscured. His compelling chapters—such as "Puritans as Democrats," "The Monarchs' Revolution," and "The Artist Prophet and Jester"—show the recurrent role of great themes throughout the era. 
The triumphs and defeats of five hundred years form an inspiring saga that modifies the current impression of one long tale of oppression by white European males. Women and their deeds are prominent, and freedom (even in sexual matters) is not an invention of the last decades. And when Barzun rates the present not as a culmination but a decline, he is in no way a prophet of doom. Instead, he shows decadence as the normal close of great periods and a necessary condition of the creative novelty that will burst forth—tomorrow or the next day.
Only after a lifetime of separate studies covering a broad territory could a writer create with such ease the synthesis displayed in this magnificent volume.

From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

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House of Intellect, The

The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going.

Simple & Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers

Science: The Glorious Entertainment

A Catalogue of Crime

A catalogue of crime

A Stroll With William James

Simple & Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers

A Catalogue of Crime: Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres

From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life