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Barzun

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Bar·zun  (bärzn), Jacques Martin Born 1907.
French-born American educator, author, and historian whose works include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941), The American University (1968), and The Use and Abuse of Art (1974).


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There were dozens of authors he either introduced me to or pressed me into finally reading, including John Lukacs, Jacques Barzun, Maurice Baring, Etienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain.
Daniel Bell, Jacques Barzun, and Seymour Martin Lipset taught there as well.
So abundant are these images and events that one could fancy that Haggard wrote his romance as a deliberate attempt to include as many of them as feasible; however, so far as I know, Haggard had never heard of the book, which Jacques Barzun said marked "the new cultural direction from Neoclassicism to Romanticism" (356); Haggard's tale must surely be one of the greatest artifacts of popular Romanticism ever written.
 
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