A Jacques Barzun Reader

Selections from His Works

By: Jacques Barzun

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Throughout his career Jacques Barzun, author of the "New York Times" bestseller and National Book Award Finalist "From Dawn to Decadence," has always been known as a witty and graceful essayist, one who combines a depth of knowledge and a rare facility with words.

Now Michael Murray has carefully selected eighty of Barzun's most inventive, accomplished, and insightful essays, and compiled them in one impressive volume. With subjects ranging from history to baseball to crime novels, "A Jacques Barzun Reader" is a feast for any reader.

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Introduction	p. xiv
On a Pragmatic View of Life
Toward a Fateful Serenity	p. 3
On the Two Ways of Knowing: History and Science
The Search for Truths	p. 15
History as Counter-Method and Anti-Abstraction	p. 19
The Imagination of the Real	p. 26
Cultural History: A Synthesis	p. 27
Alfred North Whitehead	p. 34
William James: The Mind as Artist	p. 35
Thomas Beddoes, M.D.	p. 39
Science and Scientism	p. 49
Myths for Materialists	p. 69
On What Critics Argue About
Criticism: An Art or a Craft?	p. 79
The Scholar-Critic	p. 87
James Agate and His Nine Egos	p. 92
The Grand Pretense	p. 103
On Sentimentality	p. 107
Samuel Butler	p. 108
On Romanticism	p. 114
Dorothy Sayers	p. 116
John Jay Chapman	p. 120
Remembering Lionel Trilling	p. 129
On Language and Style
Rhetoric--What It Is; Why Needed	p. 149
The Retort Circumstantial	p. 156
The Necessity of a Common Tongue	p. 160
The Word "Man"	p. 168
On Biography	p. 172
Venus at Large: Sexuality and the Limits of Literature	p. 175
Onoma-Onomato-Onomatwaddle	p. 186
On Some Classics
Swift, or Man's Capacity for Reason	p. 193
Why Diderot?	p. 203
William Hazlitt	p. 213
How the Romantics Invented Shakespeare	p. 216
Bernard Shaw	p. 231
Goethe's Faust	p. 235
When the Orient Was New: Byron, Kinglake, and Flaubert	p. 250
The Permanence of Oscar Wilde	p. 272
Bagehot as Historian	p. 284
Lincoln the Literary Artist	p. 293
The Reign of William and Henry	p. 304
On Music and Design
Why Opera?	p. 323
Is Music Unspeakable?	p. 324
Music for Europe: A Travers Chants	p. 337
To Praise Varese	p. 354
Delacroix	p. 358
Visual Evidence of a New Age	p. 362
Museum Piece 1967	p. 366
Why Art Must Be Challenged	p. 374
On Teaching and Learning
The Art of Making Teachers	p. 387
Where the Educational Nonsense Comes From	p. 391
Occupational Disease: Verbal Inflation	p. 392
The Centrality of Reading	p. 396
The Tyranny of Testing	p. 401
History for Beginners	p. 404
Of What Use the Classics Today?	p. 412
The University's Primary Task	p. 423
The Scholar Is an Institution	p. 424
Exeunt the Humanities	p. 426
On America Past and Present
On Baseball	p. 437
Race: Fact or Fiction?	p. 443
Thoreau the Thorough Impressionist	p. 447
The Railroad	p. 465
The Great Switch	p. 470
Is Democratic Theory for Export?	p. 473
Administering and the Law	p. 488
The Three Enemies of Intellect	p. 492
An American Commencement	p. 509
On France and the French
Paris in 1830	p. 519
Food for the NRF	p. 539
French and Its Vagaries	p. 545
Flaubert's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas	p. 553
On Crime, True and Make-Believe
The Aesthetics of the Criminous	p. 563
Rex Stout	p. 564
A Catalogue of Crime	p. 567
Why Read Crime Fiction?	p. 571
The Place and Point of "True Crime"	p. 578
Meditations on the Literature of Spying	p. 581
A Miscellany
Definitions	p. 591
Jottings	p. 593
Clerihews	p. 595
Ars Poetica	p. 597
Bibliography	p. 599
Index of Names	p. 605
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