In Defense of Elitism

Name: In Defense of Elitism
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ISBN: 9780385479431

ISBN-10: 0385479433

ISBN-13: 9780385479431

Edition: N/A

Authors: William A. Henry

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion to the largely unexamined myth of egalitarianism lies at the heart of the ongoing "dumbing of America." Americans have always stubbornly clung to the myth of egalitarianism, of the supremacy of the individual average man. But here, at long last, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic William A. Henry III takes on, and debunks, some basic, fundamentally ingrained ideas: that everyone is pretty much alike (and should be); that self-fulfillment is more imortant thant objective achievement; that everyone has something significant to…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.23" wide x 7.97" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English