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.
Jacques Barzun
Present-Day Thoughts on the Quality of Life (1969)
Jacques Barzun delivered this lecture half a century ago
by Jacques Barzun | Monday, March 04, 2019
Findings: Meditations on the Literature of Spying
From the Spring 1965 issue of The Scholar
by Jacques Barzun | Saturday, December 01, 2007
To the Rescue of Romanticism
From the Spring 1940 issue of The Scholar
by Jacques Barzun | Saturday, December 01, 2007
The Cradle of Modernism
From the Autumn 1990 issue of The Scholar
by Jacques Barzun | Saturday, December 01, 2007
