The Critical Temper
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The Critical Temper
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On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, The New Criterion has brought together a plump chrestomathy of essays demonstrating its range and acuity as America's foremost review of culture and the arts.
With contributions by Bruce Bawer, Anthony Daniels, Denis Donoghue, Joseph Epstein, John Steele Gordon, Victor Davis Hanson, Charles Hill, Donald Kagan, Roger Kimball, Heather Mac Donald, Myron Magnet, Andrew C. McCarthy, David Pryce-Jones, Andrew Roberts, Alexander McCall Smith, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Keith Windschuttle, and many others, this collection of fifty essays brings you the best of the best: incisive cultural criticism, scintillating historical analysis, and robust commentary about the way we live now.
Edited by Roger Kimball, this spiritual Baedeker is a timely repository of timeless writing about the figures, controversies, and challenges that define our life in the 2020s.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781641772174
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 04 November 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Encounter Books,USA
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Edited by Roger Kimball
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 165.0mm
Height: 241.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 600
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About the Author
Roger Kimball is Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books. He writes regular columns at American Greatness, The Spectator USA, and The Epoch Times. His latest books are Who Rules?: Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Fate of Freedom in the Twenty-First Century and The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia.
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