Jacques Barzun
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 11 years ago |
| Date of birth | November 30,1907 |
| Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
| Born | Creteil |
| France | |
| Date of died | October 25,2012 |
| Died | San Antonio |
| Texas | |
| United States | |
| Job | Professor |
| Philosopher | |
| Writer | |
| Critic | |
| Historian | |
| Education | Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences |
| Columbia University | |
| Awards | The Ellery Queen Award |
| Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada | |
| St. Louis Literary Award | |
| Special Edgars Award | |
| Presidential Medal of Freedom | |
| Current partner | Mariana Lowell |
| Parents | Henri-Martin Barzun |
| Children | Roger Martin Barzun |
| Grandchildren | Lucy Barzun Donnelly |
| Charles Barzun | |
| Nominations | National Book Award for Nonfiction |
| National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 593379 |
From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present- 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
Teacher in America
Simple & direct
The culture we deserve
Darwin, Marx, Wagner
Berlioz and the romantic century
The modern researcher
A Jacques Barzun reader
Classic, Romantic, and Modern
Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning
The use and abuse of art
God's country and mine
Race, a study in superstition
A Catalogue of Crime: A Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres
A stroll with William James
The energies of art
The American university
Clio and the Doctors
Of Human Freedom
Music in American Life
An essay on French verse
Pleasures of Music: An Anthology of Writing about Music and Musicians from Cellini to Bernard Shaw
A word or two before you go--
Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980
On writing, editing, and publishing
The French Race: Theories of Its Origins and Their Social and Political Implications Prior to the Revolution
Is Democratic Theory for Export
Essays on Walter Prescott Webb and the Teaching of History
Mencken's America Speaking: The Atlantic, January, 1946
Literature in Liszt's mind and work
Education in the Nation's Service: Books That Matter
From Dawn to Decadence
The House of Intellect
Teacher in America
Simple & direct
The culture we deserve
Darwin, Marx, Wagner
Berlioz and the romantic century
The modern researcher
A Jacques Barzun reader
Classic, Romantic, and Modern
Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning
The use and abuse of art
God's country and mine
Race, a study in superstition
A Catalogue of Crime: A Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres
A stroll with William James
The energies of art
The American university
Clio and the Doctors
Of Human Freedom
Music in American Life
An essay on French verse
Pleasures of Music: An Anthology of Writing about Music and Musicians from Cellini to Bernard Shaw
A word or two before you go--
Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980
On writing, editing, and publishing
The French Race: Theories of Its Origins and Their Social and Political Implications Prior to the Revolution
Is Democratic Theory for Export
Essays on Walter Prescott Webb and the Teaching of History
Mencken's America Speaking: The Atlantic, January, 1946
Literature in Liszt's mind and work
Education in the Nation's Service: Books That Matter
From Dawn to Decadence
The House of Intellect
Jacques Barzun Life story
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.
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