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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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