Jacques Barzun
| Jacques Martin Barzun (born November 30, 1907, Grenoble France) is a leading American historian of ideas and culture. The author of over 30 books, at the age of 84 he began writing From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present, which was lauded by historians, literary critics, and popular reviewers alike as a sweeping and powerful, albeit idiosyncratic, survey of modern Western history. |
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