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Jacques Barzun

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#295

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#67

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Bachelors History Columbia University
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According to Wikipedia, Jacques Martin Barzun was a French-born American historian known for his studies of the history of ideas and cultural history. He wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, mystery novels, and classical music, and was also known as a philosopher of education. In the book Teacher in America , Barzun influenced the training of schoolteachers in the United States.

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Jacques Barzun's Published Works

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The modern researcher (1978) (253)
Review: Jacques Hadamard, An essay on the psychology of invention in the mathematical field (1946) (202)
Foresight and understanding : an enquiry into the aims of science (1963) (166)
From dawn to decadence : 500 years of Western cultural life, 1500 to the present (2001) (111)
From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present- 500 Years of Western Cultural Life (2000) (94)
Teacher in America (1945) (78)
The Future of Reading. (1978) (73)
The House of Intellect (1959) (71)
Modern American usage (1974) (63)
A Stroll With William James (1983) (62)
Classic, Romantic, and Modern (1961) (57)
The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going. (1970) (49)
Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning (1991) (41)
The Written Word. (1948) (40)
Clio and the Doctors: Psycho-History, Quanto-History & History (1976) (40)
Science: The Glorious Entertainment (1964) (39)
Berlioz and the Romantic Century (1950) (38)
Rameau's Nephew and Other Works (1984) (37)
Race, A Study In Superstition (1937) (34)
The Use and Abuse of Art (2020) (33)
Modern American Usage: A Guide (1966) (32)
Darwin, Marx, Wagner. Critique of a Heritage. (1942) (28)
What Nietzsche Means. (1941) (27)
Romanticism and the Modern Ego (1944) (23)
The Paradoxes of Creativity (2016) (21)
The culture we deserve (1989) (19)
The Higher Learning, the Universities, and the Public@@@The American University (1970) (16)
Henry James and pragmatistic thought (1990) (16)
Evenings With the Orchestra (1956) (14)
God's country and mine : a declaration of love spiced with a few harsh words (1954) (14)
Race : a study in modern superstition (1938) (12)
The Meaning of Meaning in Music: Berlioz Once More (1980) (12)
History: The Muse and her doctors. (1972) (11)
God's country and mine (1954) (11)
Is democratic theory for export? (1986) (10)
William James. A Biography. Gay Wilson Allen. Viking, New York, 1967. 576 pp. $10 (1967) (10)
Music in American Life (1954) (9)
The French race : theories of its origins and their social and political implications, prior to the revolution (1932) (9)
The interpretation of history (1943) (9)
Berlioz and His Century: An Introduction to the Age of Romanticism (1982) (9)
Science as a Social Institution (1966) (8)
Romantic Historiography as a Political Force in France (1941) (8)
Notes without music : an autobiography (1953) (8)
Pascal's Pensées: Introduction (2003) (7)
Race, A Study in Modern Superstition. (1938) (7)
A dictionary of Parisian music publishers, 1700-1950 (1954) (6)
The Scholar Looks at the Library (1946) (6)
The Catholic University: A Modern Appraisal (1971) (6)
To the Rescue of Romanticism (2016) (6)
American Journalist and Composer-Critic (1954) (6)
Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941) (6)
Blood & ink : an international guide to fact-based crime literature (2002) (6)
Simple & Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers (1975) (6)
Where Are the Disciples (1960) (6)
Beethoven in France: The Growth of an Idea (1943) (5)
ON MAKING BOOKS. (5)
A Catalogue of Crime (1971) (5)
Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Charles Coulston Gillispie, Ed. Vol. 1, Pierre Abailard-L. S. Berg; xiv, 626 pp., illus. Vol. 2, Hans Berger-Christoph Buys Ballot; xii, 628 pp. Scribner, New York, 1970. $35 a volume (1970) (5)
Berlioz and the Romantic Century. Volume I (1969) (5)
From Parnassus : essays in honor of Jacques Barzun (1976) (5)
Biography and Criticism: A Misalliance Disputed (1975) (4)
The selected writings of John Jay Chapman (1958) (4)
The professions under siege: private practice versus public need. (1979) (4)
Berlioz as man and thinker (2000) (4)
Four great makers of modern architecture : Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Wright (1970) (4)
A Bibliography of the Musical and Literary Works of Hector Berlioz (1952) (4)
Meditations on The Literature of Spying (2016) (4)
A future for the liberal arts, if… (1994) (4)
In Favor of Capital Punishment (1969) (4)
RESEARCHING (1977) (4)
A word or two before you go (1986) (3)
From dawn to decadence (prologue) (2017) (3)
The Romantic century (1985) (3)
No compromise : the conflict between two worlds (1940) (3)
Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980 (1983) (3)
Notes on the Making of a World Encyclopedia (1962) (3)
The New Librarian to the Rescue. (1969) (3)
The Energies of Art: Studies of Authors, Classic and Modern (1956) (3)
Tomorrow's University--Back to the Middle Ages?. (1969) (3)
Matters of Tact (1961) (3)
A company of readers : uncollected writings of W.H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling from The Readers' Subscription and Mid-Century book clubs (2001) (3)
On Knowing. Essays for the left hand. Jerome S. Bruner. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1962. 165 pp. $3.75 (1963) (3)
Money and the Man (1963) (3)
The Man in the American Mask (1965) (3)
On Writing, Editing and Publishing: Essays Explicative and Hortatory (1971) (3)
Look It Up! Check It Out!. (1986) (2)
PUBLISHING: Behind the Blue Pencil: Censorship or Creeping Creativity? (2016) (2)
Of Human Freedom (1977) (2)
The Future of Reading Books (1978) (2)
The selected letters of Lord Byron (1953) (2)
A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works (2001) (2)
The Cradle of Modernism (2016) (2)
What Is a School (2002) (2)
We who teach (1946) (2)
William James: The mind as artist. (1992) (2)
History as a Liberal Art (1945) (2)
Thomas Beddoes or, medicine and social conscience. (1972) (2)
Pleasures Of Music: An Anthology Of Writing About Music And Musicians From Cellini To Bernard Shaw (1977) (2)
Art and Educational Inflation (1978) (2)
Lincoln, the literary genius (1960) (2)
Reflections on teaching and learning (1991) (1)
The energies of art (1956) (1)
The education of candidates for medical school. (1973) (1)
The Scholar is an Institution (1947) (1)
Clio and the Doctors. Psycho-History, Quanto-History, and History.@@@Style in History. (1976) (1)
The Battle over Brains in Democratic Education (2015) (1)
THE MIND OF THE YOUNG BERLIOZ (1949) (1)
The clash and attraction of two cultures : the Hispanic and Anglo-Saxon worlds in America (1965) (1)
Television and the Schools--But Not What You Think. (1987) (1)
O'Casey at Your Bedside (1958) (1)
Poetry and Life: Lord Byron (1954) (1)
So long as doctors have to think. (1971) (1)
O’Casey at Your Bedside (1958) (1969) (0)
Behavioral Science Technology ... Bits (1962) (0)
An Interestingly Written Manual: The Modern Researcher (1958) (0)
Sherlock Holmes and Sociology (2016) (0)
The house of intellect / Jacques Barzun (1959) (0)
"A Rule is a Rule": Four Playlets by Georges Courteline (1958) (0)
What is Race?@@@Race--A Study in Modern Superstition. (1938) (0)
Patterns of Choice (2017) (0)
Five Thousand Orange Pips, or the Seeds of Pedantry (2016) (0)
Essays for the Left Hand: On Knowing . Essays for the left hand. Jerome S. Bruner. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1962. 165 pp. $3.75. (1963) (0)
Education in France: Its Theory, Practice and Worth (1935) (0)
The selected litters of Lord Byron (1953) (0)
The Wellsprings of Liberty (Aux sources de la liberte) (1940) (0)
Africa for beginners : a traveler's notebook (1963) (0)
Historiography (1977) (0)
Machiavelli Dead and Gone (2016) (0)
BERLIOZ A HUNDRED YEARS AFTER (1970) (0)
Discussion and Recommendations (2017) (0)
[Science as a Social Institution]: Discussion (1966) (0)
American Architecture and Other Writings. The writings of Montgomery Schuyler. William H. Jordy and Ralph Coe, Eds. Harvard University Press (Belknap Press), Cambridge, Mass., 1961. xxvii + 664 pp. Illus. $12.50 (2 volumes) (1962) (0)
Sources of Cultural Estrangement, by Deric ReginSources of Cultural Estrangement, by Deric Regin. Studies in the Social Sciences, No 7. Mouton & Co., The Hague, 1969. 157 pp. (1971) (0)
Music and Recordings: 1955 (1955) (0)
Rhetoric and Rightness: Some Fallacies in a Science of Language (1986) (0)
William James, Author (2016) (0)
Alclous Huxley on the Two Cultures: Literature and Science . Aldous Huxley. Harper and Row. New York. 1963. viii + 118 pp. $3.50. (1964) (0)
The Century of Light: Some Unanswered Questions (2021) (0)
CULTURE: The Tyranny of the Aesthetic (2016) (0)
An American Encyclopedia (1951) (0)
Viereck, Peter: Reply to Jacques Barzun's Review@@@Metapolitics: From the Romantics to Hitler. (1942) (0)
The Grove of Academe (II) (1982) (0)
Doctors criminal and criminous. (1971) (0)
Art Education and Inflation. (1978) (0)
Berlioz Studies: Overheard at Glimmerglass (‘Famous last words’) (1992) (0)
HISTORIOGRAPHY: An Historian Who Writes History (2016) (0)
A Chance to Tinker to Evans (2016) (0)
A Lincoln Anthology in Brief (2016) (0)
New letters of Berlioz, 1830-1868 (1974) (0)
Thoreau the Thorough Impressionist (2016) (0)
Jacques Barzun Reflects on Today's Schools. (1982) (0)
Speaking of Means and Ends (2016) (0)
Burke and Hare; the resurrection men, etc (1976) (0)
International affairs ; Regional institutes (1959) (0)
Procedures of Recruitment (2017) (0)
Teaching and Research in History Today. (1986) (0)
An American commencement (1989) (0)
Woyzeck . Cavalleria rusticana . Woman of Paris . The threepenny opera . Electra (1955) (0)
Art in basic education : two papers (1979) (0)
Visual outline of English history (1933) (0)
CRIME: The Aesthetics of the Criminous (2016) (0)
The Education of Nations: A Comparison in Historical Perspective. Robert Ulich. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1961. xiii + 325 pp. $6.75 (1961) (0)
Ça Existe - A Note on the New Ism (2016) (0)
A Brief bag of Felonies (2016) (0)
Three Men and a Book (2016) (0)
Notes on Tocqueville’s Interpreters (1986) (0)
The Modern Researcher / Jacques Barzun dan Henry F.Graff (1977) (0)
Social Concerns: Trim the College!. (2002) (0)
The Retort Circumstantial (2016) (0)
Where the Educational Nonsense Comes from: An Opinion. (1972) (0)
What makes writing right (1984) (0)
The Creative Critic. Carl Henry Grabo (1949) (0)
Fowler's Generation (2016) (0)
Lamont Geological Observatory 1964-1965 (1964) (0)
In Favor of Particular Cliches. (1973) (0)
Book Review:The Roots of National Socialism Rohan D'O. Butler (1942) (0)
Recommended Summer Reading (2016) (0)
Walter Bagehot: A Study of his Life and Thought Together with a Selection from his Political Writings. By Norman St. John-Stevas. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1959. Pp. xvi, 485. $7.50.) (1959) (0)
Of Human Freedom@@@The New Democracy and the New Despotism@@@Leviathan and the People (1941) (0)
Mr. Barzun and the Decky-Dance (2001) (0)
The American People in the Twentieth Century. By Oscar Handlin. [Library of Congress Series in American Civilization.] (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954. Pp. x, 244. $3.75.) (1955) (0)
Pleasures of Music: A Reader's Choice of Great Writing about Music and Musicians from Cellini to Bernard Shaw (1952) (0)
STRINDBERG AND THE MODERN CONSCIOUSNESS: "CARL XII" (2016) (0)
The Use and Abuse of Art. The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 1973 (1977) (0)
An Uncommon Carrier of Truth (2016) (0)
A Review Essay: A University Set on a Hill (1988) (0)
Second morning panel discussion. (1973) (0)
Current Trends in the Marketplace (2017) (0)
Science : the glorious entertainment / Jacques Barzun (1964) (0)
On courtesy in writing (1989) (0)
Academic Government and the Personnel Process (2017) (0)
Cultural Nationalism and the Makings of Fame (1950) (0)
Life & Art: Overlapping Circles (1982) (0)
Open Admissions: The Pros and Cons. (1972) (0)
The Strategy of the Department (2017) (0)
"The written word; antidote to number" (1959) (0)
Essays on Walter Prescott Webb and the teaching of history (1986) (0)
An Historian Who Writes History. (1993) (0)
AND JACQUES BARZUN RETORTS (2016) (0)
Light from Within (1945) (0)
How Performance is Evaluated (2017) (0)
Criminal law : problems for decision in the promulgation, invocation and administration of a law of crimes (1963) (0)
On Kenneth More as Father Brown (1984) (0)
Is Music Unspeakable (2016) (0)
Recent Books by Our Contributors (1978) (0)
LANGUAGE: Le Faux Chic (2016) (0)
The Artist as Prophet and Jester (2016) (0)
How Vacancies Occur (2017) (0)
Les Idees Traditionalistes en France de Rivarol a Charles Maurras.@@@France Faces the Future. (1939) (0)
The Place and Point of ‘True Crime’ (2001) (0)
Literature and Science. Aldous Huxley. Harper and Row. New York. 1963. viii + 118 pp. $3.50 (1964) (0)
JOURNALISM: The Press and the Prose (2016) (0)
The Book, the Bibliographer and the Absence of Mind (2016) (0)
Attitudes and Assumptions (2016) (0)
Fantasio . The diary of a scoundrel . La ronde . Purgatory . Mother courage (1955) (0)
Phaedra and Figaro (1961) (0)
Relatively unequal treatment (2001) (0)
Fair use or fair game (1998) (0)
The New Man in the Arts (2016) (0)
The Problem and the Method (2017) (0)
Selecting the Replacement (2017) (0)

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