Allan Bloom

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Allan David Bloom (14 September, 1930 in Indianapolis, Indiana - 7 October, 1992 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American philosopher, essayist and academic. Bloom championed the idea of 'Great Books' education, as did his mentor Leo Strauss, and became famous for criticism of contemporary American higher education in his bestselling 1987 book, "The Closing of the American Mind". In 2000, years after Bloom's passing, Saul Bellow, …