Jacques Barzun

Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) was a historian of ideas and culture and the author or editor of more than 40 books, including From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (2000). He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003.

Present-Day Thoughts on the Quality of Life (1969)

Jacques Barzun delivered this lecture half a century ago

By Jacques Barzun | Monday March 4, 2019

Findings: Meditations on the Literature of Spying

From the Spring 1965 issue of The Scholar

By Jacques Barzun | Saturday December 1, 2007

The Cradle of Modernism

From the Autumn 1990 issue of The Scholar

By Jacques Barzun | Saturday December 1, 2007

To the Rescue of Romanticism

From the Spring 1940 issue of The Scholar

By Jacques Barzun | Saturday December 1, 2007

The Scholar in Distant Perspective

By Jacques Barzun | Wednesday September 1, 2004

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