Synopses & Reviews
In this acclaimed defense of multiculturalism in the American higher education curriculum, Levine illuminates the true historical background of "the canon", American identity, and what Americans have believed is essential to education.
Synopsis
Publicly greeted as the definitive answer to recent attacks on the university, Lawrence W. Levine's book is a brilliantly argued positive vision of American education and culture.
Synopsis
Canons, Culture, and History. A brilliantly argued positive vision of American education and culture.
About the Author
Lawrence W. Levine, a MacArthur Award-winning historian who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and George Mason University, is author of The Opening of the American Mind (Beacon / 3119-4 / $16.00 pb). Cornelia R. Levine is an independent scholar. They live in Berkeley, California, and Washington, D. C.