The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

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Journal Article The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. By Allan Bloom, Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. By E. D. Hirsch, Jr. and What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature. By Diane Ravitch and Chester E. Finn, Jr. Get access Wayne J. Urban Wayne J. Urban Georgia State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 869–874, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901535 Published: 01 December 1988