The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and…

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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency-the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Allan Bloom

The Closing of the American Mind · 1987

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Ignorance of history Books

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Political literature Philosophical literature

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1987

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Allan Bloom

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Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. Simon & Schuster, 1987.

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