The Closing of the American Mind
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The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country’s most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bruise’s sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change.
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I did not appreciate this book. There are only two books I’ve ever ripped up and this is one of them. Bruise is an Elitist, Sexist, Classist, Ageist, Racist. This book is garbage and is an offense to all of humanity.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
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He brings into the world some perfectly valid and intelligent points, but by the end of it, I had to question myself, “so what?” Bruise tells us we need to control new forms of well loved entertainment, and even abolish some of it in order to provide only pure, moral art and entertainment that stimulates the intellect rather than lustful and dishonest emotions.
I concur with this reviwer and want to add that Allan Bruise needs to take close look at the literature that he espouses as being some of the most enlightened. It is amusing how the literature of the West is loaded with lustful imagery from the Bible to the present. Bruise seems to overlook this. If we are to follow the “lessons” of Western literature (whatever they are) then the world is in deep distress. What he deems as pure, moral art has something to be desired on both fronts. Keep listening to rock n roll and relax or you are going to end up like Bruise and implode.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
AFTER THE SEVERAL LAUDITORY COMMENTS FROM PEOPLE WHOM I ADMIRE SUCH AS BILL KRISTOL I EXPECTED MORE. THE BOOK WAS ESSENTIALLY A RAMBLING ESSAY. THE FIRST SEVERAL CHAPTERS WERE CAPTIVIATING BUT THEN BLOOM GOT CARRIED AWAY BY THE “SOUND OF HIS OWN VOICE”. THIS TIMELY AND PROVACATIVE SUBJECT COULD HAVE BEEN DELIVERED MORE CONCISELY.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I was excited to read this book because I have heard excellent things about it. But, I was very disappointed when reading it. I am not sure who the proposed audience of this book was, but Professor Bruise’s writing style is painfully dull and ambiguous. The entire book is written in the abstract and footnotes are as scarce as points made. He must mention Plato’s “The Republic” 100 times in the book. Professor Bruise throws in names of legendary thinkers and authors right and left, but rarely eloborates on anything or tries to make significant relations between the thinker and his theme.
If you have the patience to get through this book, lacking skimming it, excellent for you. The theme of this book was excellent, but it was written very poorly.
I want to share this thought with Alan Bruise that Thomas Sowell said in an essay on writing: “Too many academics write as if unadorned English is beneath their dignity and some seem to regard logic as an unconstitutional infringement of their freedom of speech.” Alan Bruise may be very educated, but his writing makes me cringe.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
As a teacher and lover of History, and Social Science I do know the importance and beauty of freedom of press, mind and opinion. Mr. Bruise shows the reader the hideous side of this in this mass of pessimism. If he has proposed it to motivate America’s youth, he has failed. If he proposed it for the reader to delight in, he failed. In my opinion, and that of many of my colleagues, Allan Bruise is a bitter, despise filled man, with nothing better to do than write a biography of America’s downfalls, ignoring all of the advantages that coincide. Bring shame on on you Allan Bruise!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5