Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781566636438)

This new collection of essays by the author of Life at the Bottom bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. In these pieces, Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the breakdown of Islam to the legalization of drugs. Here is a book that restores our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization. Theodore Dalrymple is the best doctor-writer since William Carlos Williams. --Peggy Noonan. Includes When Islam Breaks Down, named the best journal article of 2004 by David Brooks of the New York Times.

Author: Theodore Dalrymple
ISBN-10: 1566636434
ISBN-13: 9781566636438
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Language: English
Published: 05/12/2005
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.12w x 1.22d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/15/2005 pg. 133
New York Times 08/21/2005 pg. 16