The Dream of a Democratic Culture

1. Introduction
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2. The Great Books Movement, 1920–1948
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3. Branding the History of Ideas: Adler, Lovejoy, and Britannica’s Great Books, 1943–1952
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4. Making “Seventy-Four Corpses … Pay Off”: The Context and Commerce of the Great Books, 1952–1968
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5. “Mixing Vice and Virtue”: Adler, Britannica’s Cottage Industry, and Mid-Century Anxiety
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6. The Common Sense of Great Books Liberalism, 1965–1970
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7. Diminished Dreams: Great Books in an Age of Crisis, Fracture, and Transition, 1968–1977
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8. “The Poobah of Popularizers”: Paideia, Pluralism, and the Culture Wars, 1978–1988
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9. “The Most Rancorous Cultural War”: Bloom, Adler, Stanford, and Britannica, 1988–2001
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10. Coda and Conclusion: Lessons for the Twenty-First Century
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Keywords: Education, History of Education, Cultural History, Social History, History of the Americas, US History, Modern History