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Jacques Martin Barzun is a leading American historian of ideas and culture. His reputation, such as it is, is that of a political and social conservative and an eloquent defender of tradition in the practice of higher education and scholarship. But a closer consideration of his works will reveal the unsoundness of any such labels to describe his attitudes or thought. As his friend, Lionel Trilling, said, "It's much more complicated."

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	Wikipedia The definitive Wikipedia entry for Jacques Barzun. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Barzun
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	Columbia College Today For most of a century, Jacques Barzun 27 has embodied Columbia. www.college.columbia.edu/cct/jan06/cover.php
	hackwriters.com - A Jacques... J acques Barzun is sort of the social sciences equivalent of Harold Bloom, albeit less personally and intellectually noxious. www.hackwriters.com/Barzun.htm
	Jacques Barzun. American... Jacques Barzun (b.1907) grew up in Paris and moved to the United States as a teenager. In 1923 he entered Columbia College and graduated four years later at the top of his class. He was a lecturer at Columbia where he became a full professor in 1945 and www.the-rathouse.com/JacquesBarzun.html
	Jacques Barzun -... Born in France in 1907, Jacques Barzun came to the United States in 1920. After graduating from Columbia College, he joined the faculty of the university, becoming Seth Low Professor of History and, for a decade, Dean of Faculties and Provost. The autho www.harperacademic.com/catalog/author_xml.asp?authorID=571
	Jacques Barzun, an essay by... In the Author's Note, Barzun advised that he set out to be "selective and critical rather than neutral and encyclopedic". Those who have tried to read this wrist-breaking 900 page tome in bed will be pleased that he did not set out to be more informative www.the-rathouse.com/JBarzun_essRC.html
	Writers' Representatives,... Jacques Barzun was born in 1907 and grew up in Paris and Grenoble, where his great-grandfather, a university professor, had settled to teach during the mid-19th century. In Paris, his parents' house was one of the centers of the new movements in the arts www.writersreps.com/author.cfm?AuthorID=85

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