Book review: ‘A Great Idea at the Time’ (International Herald Tribune)

November 16th, 2008 | by |

Alex Beam relates how Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler and a few others whittled the literary, scientific and philosophical canon down to 443 exemplary works to be included in their Great Books of the Western World.

Read the rest here:
Book review: ‘A Great Idea at the Time’ (International Herald Tribune)

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Sorry, comments for this entry are closed at this time.