the closing of the american mind Author:allan bloom How higher education has failed democrac and impoverished he soud of today's students. — "Hits with the approximate force and effect of what electricity-shock therapy must be like...By turns passionate and witty, sweetly reasoned and outraged, it commands one's attention and concentrates one's mind more effectively than any other book I can think... more » of in the past 5 years." Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times« less