The Dream of a Democratic Culture

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Great Books Movement, 1920–1948

Chapter 3 Branding the History of Ideas: Adler, Lovejoy, and Britannica’s Great Books , 1943–1952

Chapter 4 Making “Seventy-Four Corpses … Pay Off”: The Context and Commerce of the Great Books , 1952–1968

Chapter 5 “Mixing Vice and Virtue”: Adler, Britannica’s Cottage Industry, and Mid-Century Anxiety

Chapter 7 Diminished Dreams: Great Books in an Age of Crisis, Fracture, and Transition, 1968–1977

Chapter 8 “The Poobah of Popularizers”: Paideia, Pluralism, and the Culture Wars, 1978–1988

Chapter 9 “The Most Rancorous Cultural War”: Bloom, Adler, Stanford, and Britannica, 1988–2001

Chapter 10 Coda and Conclusion: Lessons for the Twenty-First Century