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A 1980 profile of cultural historian Jacques Barzun resurfaces
Original: Jacques Barzun, Cultural historian and critic (1980)
A 1980 Christian Science Monitor profile of Jacques Barzun, the French-born American cultural historian and critic, is circulating again. Barzun, a longtime Columbia University professor and author of works on art, music and intellectual history, was one of the most prominent public intellectuals of his era. Readers are revisiting the older piece as an introduction to his career and writing.
Why now: Readers are sharing a decades-old profile of a major intellectual figure whose work remains of interest.
Jacques BarzunColumbia UniversityChristian Science Monitor
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- Jacques Barzun, Cultural historian and critic (1980) · Michelangelo11 · 9
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