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Back to EpisodesGreat books and the canon wars with Tim Lacy
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Tim Lacy lets us in on all things Great Books: champions, curriculums, and controversies.
- Tim Lacy. 2013. The Dream of a Democratic Culture: Mortimer J. Adler and the Great Books Idea. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Daniel Wickberg. 2024. A History of American Thought 1860–2000: Thinking the Modern. Routledge.
- Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. 2019. Ideas that Made America: A Brief History. Oxford University Press.
- Earl Shorris. 1997. New American Blues: A Journey Through Poverty to Democracy. WW Norton.
- Leo Tolstoy. 1867. War and Peace.
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