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.infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Jacques Barzun</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Jacques_barzun.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Jacques_barzun.jpg/220px-Jacques_barzun.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Jacques_barzun.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="270" data-file-height="360" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Painting of Barzun titled <i>With Light from a New Dawn</i>, 1947</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Jacques Martin Barzun</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1907-11-30</span>)</span>November 30, 1907<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Cr%C3%A9teil" title="Créteil">Créteil</a>, France</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">October 25, 2012<span style="display:none">(2012-10-25)</span> (aged 104)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/San_Antonio" title="San Antonio">San Antonio</a>, Texas, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>, <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">MA</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy" title="Doctor of Philosophy">PhD</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Historian</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lucy_Barzun_Donnelly" title="Lucy Barzun Donnelly">Lucy Barzun Donnelly</a> (granddaughter)<br /><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Barzun" title="Matthew Barzun">Matthew Barzun</a> (grandson)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Jacques Martin Barzun</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="/ɑːr/: 'ar' in 'far'">ɑːr</span><span title="'z' in 'zoom'">z</span><span title="/ən/: 'on' in 'button'">ən</span></span>/</a></span></span>;<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> November 30, 1907 – October 25, 2012) was a French-born American historian known for his studies of the <a href="/wiki/History_of_ideas" class="mw-redirect" title="History of ideas">history of ideas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cultural_history" title="Cultural history">cultural history</a>. He wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, mystery novels, and classical music, and was also known as a <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_education" title="Philosophy of education">philosopher of education</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the book <i>Teacher in America</i> (1945), Barzun influenced the training of schoolteachers in the United States. </p><p>A professor of history at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_College_of_Columbia_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbia College of Columbia University">Columbia College</a> for many years, he published more than forty books, was awarded the American <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a>, and was designated a knight of the <a href="/wiki/French_Legion_of_Honor" class="mw-redirect" title="French Legion of Honor">French Legion of Honor</a>. The historical retrospective <i><a href="/wiki/From_Dawn_to_Decadence:_500_Years_of_Western_Cultural_Life,_1500_to_the_Present" class="mw-redirect" title="From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present">From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present</a></i> (2000), widely considered his <i><a href="/wiki/Masterpiece" title="Masterpiece">magnum opus</a></i>, was published when he was 93 years old.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jacques_Barzun&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jacques Martin Barzun was born in <a href="/wiki/Cr%C3%A9teil" title="Créteil">Créteil</a>, France, to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Henri-Martin_Barzun&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Henri-Martin Barzun (page does not exist)">Henri-Martin Barzun</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Martin_Barzun" class="extiw" title="fr:Henri-Martin Barzun">fr</a>]</span> and Anna-Rose Barzun, and spent his childhood in <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> and <a href="/wiki/Grenoble" title="Grenoble">Grenoble</a>. His father was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Abbaye_de_Cr%C3%A9teil" title="Abbaye de Créteil">Abbaye de Créteil</a> group of artists and writers, and also worked in the <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Social_Affairs_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Social Affairs (France)">French Ministry of Labor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-gathman_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gathman-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His parents' Paris home was frequented by many <a href="/wiki/Modernism" title="Modernism">modernist</a> artists of <i><a href="/wiki/Belle_%C3%89poque" title="Belle Époque">Belle Époque</a></i> France, such as the poet <a href="/wiki/Guillaume_Apollinaire" title="Guillaume Apollinaire">Guillaume Apollinaire</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Cubist" class="mw-redirect" title="Cubist">Cubist</a> painters <a href="/wiki/Albert_Gleizes" title="Albert Gleizes">Albert Gleizes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp" title="Marcel Duchamp">Marcel Duchamp</a>, the composer <a href="/wiki/Edgard_Var%C3%A8se" title="Edgard Varèse">Edgard Varèse</a>, and the writers <a href="/wiki/Richard_Aldington" title="Richard Aldington">Richard Aldington</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stefan_Zweig" title="Stefan Zweig">Stefan Zweig</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-gathman_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gathman-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While on a diplomatic mission to the United States during the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> (1914–1918), Barzun's father so liked the country he decided that his son should receive an American <a href="/wiki/University_education" class="mw-redirect" title="University education">university education</a>; thus, the twelve-year-old Jacques Martin attended <a href="/wiki/Lyc%C3%A9e_Janson-de-Sailly" title="Lycée Janson-de-Sailly">Lycée Janson-de-Sailly</a> until moving to America, where he graduated from <a href="/wiki/Harrisburg_Technical_High_School" title="Harrisburg Technical High School">Harrisburg Technical High School</a> in 1923 and then went off to <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>, where he obtained a <a href="/wiki/Liberal_arts_education" title="Liberal arts education">liberal arts education</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As an undergraduate at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_College_of_Columbia_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbia College of Columbia University">Columbia College</a>, Barzun was drama critic for the <i><a href="/wiki/Columbia_Daily_Spectator" title="Columbia Daily Spectator">Columbia Daily Spectator</a></i>, a prize-winning president of the <a href="/wiki/Philolexian_Society" title="Philolexian Society">Philolexian Society</a>, the Columbia literary and debate club, and <a href="/wiki/Valedictorian" title="Valedictorian">valedictorian</a> of the class of 1927.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He obtained a master's degree in 1928<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a Ph.D. in 1932 from Columbia, and taught history there from 1928 to 1955, becoming the <a href="/wiki/Seth_Low" title="Seth Low">Seth Low</a> Professor of History and a founder of the discipline of <a href="/wiki/Cultural_history" title="Cultural history">cultural history</a>. For years, he and <a href="/wiki/Literary_criticism" title="Literary criticism">literary critic</a> <a href="/wiki/Lionel_Trilling" title="Lionel Trilling">Lionel Trilling</a> conducted Columbia's famous <a href="/wiki/Great_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Books">Great Books</a> course. He was elected Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> in 1954<sup id="cite_ref-AAAS_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AAAS-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a member of the <a href="/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a> in 1984.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1955 to 1968, he served as Dean of the Graduate School, Dean of Faculties, and <a href="/wiki/Provost_(education)" title="Provost (education)">Provost</a>, while also being an Extraordinary Fellow of <a href="/wiki/Churchill_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Churchill College">Churchill College</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a>. From 1968 until his 1975 retirement, he was University Professor at Columbia. From 1951 to 1963 Barzun was one of the managing editors of <a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Readers%27_Subscription_Book_Club&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Readers' Subscription Book Club (page does not exist)">The Readers' Subscription Book Club</a>, and its successor the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mid-Century_Book_Society&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mid-Century Book Society (page does not exist)">Mid-Century Book Society</a> (the other managing editors being <a href="/wiki/W._H._Auden" title="W. H. Auden">W. H. Auden</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lionel_Trilling" title="Lionel Trilling">Lionel Trilling</a>), and afterwards was Literary Adviser to <a href="/wiki/Charles_Scribner%27s_Sons" title="Charles Scribner's Sons">Charles Scribner's Sons</a>, 1975 to 1993. </p><p>In 1936, Barzun married Mariana Lowell, a violinist from a <a href="/wiki/Lowell_family" title="Lowell family">prominent Boston family</a>. They had three children: James, Roger, and Isabel.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mariana died in 1979. In 1980, Barzun married Marguerite Lee Davenport. From 1996 the Barzuns lived in her hometown, <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio" title="San Antonio">San Antonio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>. His granddaughter <a href="/wiki/Lucy_Barzun_Donnelly" title="Lucy Barzun Donnelly">Lucy Barzun Donnelly</a> was a producer of the award-winning <a href="/wiki/HBO" title="HBO">HBO</a> film <i><a href="/wiki/Grey_Gardens_(HBO_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Grey Gardens (HBO film)">Grey Gardens</a></i>. His grandson, <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Barzun" title="Matthew Barzun">Matthew Barzun</a>, is a businessman who served from 2009 to 2011 as the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Sweden" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Ambassador to Sweden">U.S. Ambassador to Sweden</a>, and from 2013 to 2017 as <a href="/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom">Ambassador to the United Kingdom</a>. On May 14, 2012, Jacques Barzun attended a symphony performance in his honor at which works by his favorite composer, <a href="/wiki/Hector_Berlioz" title="Hector Berlioz">Hector Berlioz</a>, were performed.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He attended in a wheelchair and delivered a brief address to the crowd. </p><p>Barzun died at his home in <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="San Antonio, Texas">San Antonio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> on October 25, 2012, aged 104. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, which compared him with such scholars as <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Hook" title="Sidney Hook">Sidney Hook</a>, <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Bell" title="Daniel Bell">Daniel Bell</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lionel_Trilling" title="Lionel Trilling">Lionel Trilling</a>, called him a "distinguished historian, essayist, cultural gadfly and educator who helped establish the modern discipline of cultural history".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Naming <a href="/wiki/Edward_Gibbon" title="Edward Gibbon">Edward Gibbon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Burckhardt" title="Jacob Burckhardt">Jacob Burckhardt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Babington_Macaulay,_1st_Baron_Macaulay" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay">Thomas Babington Macaulay</a> as his intellectual ancestors, and calling him "one of the West's most eminent historians of culture" and "a champion of the liberal arts tradition in higher education," who "deplored what he called the 'gangrene of specialism'", <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i> remarked, "The sheer scope of his knowledge was extraordinary. Barzun's eye roamed over the full spectrum of Western music, art, literature and philosophy."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Essayist <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Epstein_(writer)" title="Joseph Epstein (writer)">Joseph Epstein</a>, remembering him in the <i><a href="/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Wall Street Journal">Wall Street Journal</a></i> as a "flawless and magisterial" writer who tackled "<a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Darwin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Marx</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Wagner" title="Richard Wagner">Wagner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hector_Berlioz" title="Hector Berlioz">Berlioz</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_verse" class="mw-redirect" title="French verse">French verse</a>, <a href="/wiki/English_literature" title="English literature">English</a> <a href="/wiki/Prose" title="Prose">prose</a> composition, university teaching, <a href="/wiki/Detective_fiction" title="Detective fiction">detective fiction</a>, [and] the state of intellectual life", described Barzun as a tall, handsome man with an understated elegance, thoroughly Americanized, but retaining an air of old-world culture, cosmopolitan in an elegant way rare for intellectuals".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jacques_Barzun&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Over seven decades, Barzun wrote and edited more than forty books touching on an unusually broad range of subjects, including <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a> and <a href="/wiki/Medicine" title="Medicine">medicine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Psychiatry" title="Psychiatry">psychiatry</a> from <a href="/wiki/Robert_Burton_(scholar)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Burton (scholar)">Robert Burton</a> through <a href="/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a> to modern methods, and <a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">art</a>, and <a href="/wiki/European_classical_music" class="mw-redirect" title="European classical music">classical music</a>; he was one of the all-time authorities on <a href="/wiki/Hector_Berlioz" title="Hector Berlioz">Hector Berlioz</a>. Some of his books—particularly <i>Teacher in America</i> and <i>The House of Intellect</i>—enjoyed a substantial lay readership and influenced debate about culture and education far beyond the realm of academic history. Barzun had a strong interest in the tools and mechanics of writing and <a href="/wiki/Research" title="Research">research</a>. He undertook the task of completing, from a manuscript almost two-thirds of which was in first draft at the author's death, and editing (with the help of six other people), the first edition (published 1966) of <i><a href="/wiki/Follett%27s_Modern_American_Usage" title="Follett's Modern American Usage">Follett's Modern American Usage</a></i>. Barzun was also the author of books on <a href="/wiki/Literary_genre" title="Literary genre">literary style</a> (<i>Simple and Direct</i>, 1975), on the crafts of <a href="/wiki/Editing" title="Editing">editing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Publishing" title="Publishing">publishing</a> (<i>On Writing, Editing, and Publishing</i>, 1971), and on <a href="/wiki/Research_methods" class="mw-redirect" title="Research methods">research methods</a> in <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a> and the other <a href="/wiki/Humanities" title="Humanities">humanities</a> (<i>The Modern Researcher</i>, which has seen at least six editions, and is one of the thousand most widely held library items according to the OCLC<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>). </p><p>Barzun did not disdain popular culture: his varied interests included <a href="/wiki/Detective_fiction" title="Detective fiction">detective fiction</a> and <a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">baseball</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-baseball_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baseball-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His widely quoted statement, "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." was inscribed on a plaque at the <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Baseball Hall of Fame">Baseball Hall of Fame</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He edited and wrote the introduction to the 1961 anthology, <i>The Delights of Detection</i>, which included stories by <a href="/wiki/G._K._Chesterton" title="G. K. Chesterton">G. K. Chesterton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_L._Sayers" title="Dorothy L. Sayers">Dorothy L. Sayers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rex_Stout" title="Rex Stout">Rex Stout</a>, and others. In 1971, Barzun co-authored (with Wendell Hertig Taylor), <i><a href="/wiki/A_Catalogue_of_Crime" title="A Catalogue of Crime">A Catalogue of Crime</a>: Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, & Related Genres</i>, for which he and his co-author received a Special <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Edgar Award">Edgar Award</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Mystery_Writers_of_America" title="Mystery Writers of America">Mystery Writers of America</a> the following year.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Barzun was also an advocate of <a href="/wiki/Supernatural_fiction" title="Supernatural fiction">supernatural fiction</a>, and wrote the introduction to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Penguin_Encyclopedia_of_Horror_and_the_Supernatural" title="The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural">The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Barzun was a proponent of the theatre critic and diarist <a href="/wiki/James_Agate" title="James Agate">James Agate</a>, whom he compared in stature to <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Pepys" title="Samuel Pepys">Samuel Pepys</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Barzun edited Agate's last two diaries into a new edition in 1951 and wrote an informative introductory essay, "Agate and His Nine Egos".<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:From_Dawn_to_Decadence.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/87/From_Dawn_to_Decadence.JPG/175px-From_Dawn_to_Decadence.JPG" decoding="async" width="175" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/From_Dawn_to_Decadence.JPG 1.5x" data-file-width="214" data-file-height="294" /></a><figcaption><i>From Dawn to Decadence</i> by Jacques Barzun</figcaption></figure> <p>Jacques Barzun continued to write on education and cultural history after retiring from Columbia. At 84 years of age, he began writing his <a href="/wiki/Swan_song" title="Swan song">swan song</a>, to which he devoted the better part of the 1990s. The resulting book of more than 800 pages, <i>From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present</i>, revealed a vast erudition and brilliance undimmed by advanced age. Historians, literary critics, and popular reviewers all lauded <i>From Dawn to Decadence</i> as a sweeping and powerful survey of modern Western history, and it became a <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">New York Times</a></i> bestseller. With this work he gained an international reputation.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reviewing it in the <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times"><i>New York Times</i></a>, historian <a href="/wiki/William_Everdell" title="William Everdell">William Everdell</a> called the book "a great achievement" by a scholar "undiminished in his scholarship, research and polymathic interests," while also scrutinizing Barzun's scant treatment of figures like <a href="/wiki/Walt_Whitman" title="Walt Whitman">Walt Whitman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book introduces several novel <a href="/wiki/Typographic" class="mw-redirect" title="Typographic">typographic</a> devices that aid an unusually rich system of cross-referencing and help keep many strands of thought in the book under organized control. Most pages feature a <a href="/wiki/Sidebar_(publishing)" title="Sidebar (publishing)">sidebar</a> containing a pithy quotation, usually little known, and often surprising or humorous, from some author or historical figure. In 2007, Barzun commented that "Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing."<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As late as October 2011, one month before his 104th birthday, he reviewed <a href="/wiki/Adam_Kirsch" title="Adam Kirsch">Adam Kirsch</a>'s <i>Why Trilling Matters</i> for the <i><a href="/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Wall Street Journal">Wall Street Journal</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his philosophy of writing history, Barzun emphasized the role of storytelling over the use of academic jargon and detached analysis. He concluded in <i>From Dawn to Decadence</i> that "history cannot be a science; it is the very opposite, in that its interest resides in the particulars".<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recognition">Recognition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jacques_Barzun&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Recognition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1968, Barzun received the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Literary_Award" title="St. Louis Literary Award">St. Louis Literary Award</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Saint_Louis_University" title="Saint Louis University">Saint Louis University</a> Library Associates.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Barzun was appointed a Chevalier of the National Order of the <a href="/wiki/Legion_of_Honour" title="Legion of Honour">Legion of Honour</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2003, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> by President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>. </p><p>In 1993, his book "An Essay on French Verse: For Readers of English Poetry" won the <a href="/wiki/Poetry_Society_of_America" title="Poetry Society of America">Poetry Society of America</a>'s Melville Cane Poetry Award. </p><p>On October 18, 2007, he received the 59th Great Teacher Award of the Society of Columbia Graduates <i><a href="/wiki/Award_in_absentia" class="mw-redirect" title="Award in absentia">in absentia</a></i>. </p><p>On March 2, 2011, Barzun was awarded the 2010 <a href="/wiki/National_Humanities_Medal" title="National Humanities Medal">National Humanities Medal</a> by President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>, although he was not expected to be in attendance.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On April 16, 2011, he received the Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement <i>in absentia</i>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a> honors Barzun with its Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, awarded annually since 1993 to the author of a recent distinguished work of cultural history. He also received the gold medal for Criticism from the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters" title="American Academy of Arts and Letters">American Academy of Arts and Letters</a>, of which he was twice president. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jacques_Barzun&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1927 <i>Samplings and Chronicles: Being the Continuation of the Philolexian Society History, with Literary Selections from 1912 to 1927 </i> (editor). Philolexian Society.</li> <li>1932 <i>The French Race: Theories of Its Origins and Their Social and Political Implications</i>. P.S. King & Son.</li> <li>1937 <i>Race: A Study in Modern Superstition</i> (Revised, 1965 <i>Race: A Study in Superstition</i>). Methuen & Co. Ltd.</li> <li>1939 <i>Of Human Freedom</i>. Revised edition, Greenwood Press Reprint, 1977: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8371-9321-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-8371-9321-4">0-8371-9321-4</a>.</li> <li>1941 <i>Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage</i>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4067-6178-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4067-6178-8">978-1-4067-6178-8</a>.</li> <li>1943 <i>Romanticism and the Modern Ego</i>. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1943.</li> <li>1945 <i>Teacher in America</i>. Reprint Liberty Fund, 1981. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-913966-79-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-913966-79-7">0-913966-79-7</a>. Also published as: <i>We Who Teach</i>. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1946.</li> <li>1950 <i>Berlioz and the Romantic Century</i>. Boston: Little, Brown and Company / An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1950 [2 vols.].</li> <li>1951 <i>Pleasures of Music: A Reader's Choice of Great Writing About Music and Musicians From Cellini to Bernard Shaw</i> Viking Press.</li> <li>1954 <i>God's Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love, Spiced with a Few Harsh Words</i>. Reprint Greenwood Press, 1973: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8371-6860-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-8371-6860-0">0-8371-6860-0</a>.</li> <li>1956 <i>Music in American Life</i>. Indiana University Press.</li> <li>1956 <i>The Energies of Art: Studies of Authors, Classic and Modern</i>. Greenwood, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8371-6856-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-8371-6856-2">0-8371-6856-2</a>.</li> <li>1959 <i>The House of Intellect</i>. Reprint Harper Perennial, 2002: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-010230-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-010230-2">978-0-06-010230-2</a>.</li> <li>1960 <i>Lincoln the Literary Genius</i> (first published in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Saturday_Evening_Post" title="The Saturday Evening Post">The Saturday Evening Post</a></i>, February 14, 1959)</li> <li>1961 <i>The Delights of Detection</i>. Criterion Books.</li> <li>1961 <i>Classic, Romantic, and Modern</i>. Reprint University of Chicago Press, 1975: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-226-03852-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-226-03852-1">0-226-03852-1</a>.</li> <li>1964 <i>Science: The Glorious Entertainment</i>. HarperCollins. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-06-010240-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-06-010240-3">0-06-010240-3</a>.</li> <li>1967 <i>What Man Has Built</i> (introductory booklet to the Great Ages of Man book series). Time Inc.</li> <li>1968 <i>The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going</i>. Reprint University of Chicago Press, 1993: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-226-03845-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-226-03845-9">0-226-03845-9</a>.</li> <li>1969 <i>Berlioz and the Romantic Century</i> (3d ed.).</li> <li>1971 <i>On Writing, Editing, and Publishing</i>. University of Chicago Press.</li> <li>1971 <i><a href="/wiki/A_Catalogue_of_Crime" title="A Catalogue of Crime">A Catalogue of Crime: Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres</a></i> (with Wendell Hertig Taylor). Revised edition, Harper & Row, 1989: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-06-015796-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-06-015796-8">0-06-015796-8</a>.</li> <li>1974 <i>Clio and the Doctors</i>. Reprinted University of Chicago Press, 1993: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-226-03851-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-226-03851-3">0-226-03851-3</a>.</li> <li>1974 <i>The Use and Abuse of Art</i> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=A._W._Mellon_Lectures&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A. W. Mellon Lectures (page does not exist)">A. W. Mellon Lectures</a> in the Fine Arts) . Princeton University Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-691-01804-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-691-01804-9">0-691-01804-9</a>.</li> <li>1975 <i>Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers</i>. 4th ed, Harper Perennial, 2001: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-06-093723-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-06-093723-8">0-06-093723-8</a>.</li> <li>1976 <i>The Bibliophile of the Future: His Complaints about the Twentieth Century</i> (Maury A. Bromsen lecture in humanistic bibliography). Boston Public Library. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-89073-048-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-89073-048-2">0-89073-048-2</a>.</li> <li>1980 <i>Three Talks at Northern Kentucky University</i>. Northern Kentucky University, Dept. of Literature and Language.</li> <li>1982 <i>Lincoln's Philosophic Vision</i>. Artichokes Creative Studios.</li> <li>1982 <i>Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940–1980</i> (edited by Bea Friedland). University of Chicago Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-226-03864-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-226-03864-5">0-226-03864-5</a>.</li> <li>1982 <i>Berlioz and His Century: An Introduction to the Age of Romanticism</i> (Abridgment of <i>Berlioz and the Romantic Century</i>). University of Chicago Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-226-03861-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-226-03861-0">0-226-03861-0</a>.</li> <li>1983 <i>A Stroll with William James</i>. Reprint University of Chicago Press, 2002: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-226-03869-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-226-03869-8">978-0-226-03869-8</a>.</li> <li>1986 <i>A Word or Two Before You Go: Brief Essays on Language</i>. Wesleyan University.</li> <li>1989 <i>The Culture We Deserve: A Critique of Disenlightenment</i>. Wesleyan University. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8195-6237-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-8195-6237-8">0-8195-6237-8</a>.</li> <li>1991 <i>An Essay on French Verse: For Readers of English Poetry</i>. New Directions Publishing. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8112-1158-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-8112-1158-4">0-8112-1158-4</a>.</li> <li>1991 <i>Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning</i>. University of Chicago Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-226-03846-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-226-03846-7">0-226-03846-7</a>.</li> <li>2000 <i><a href="/wiki/From_Dawn_to_Decadence" title="From Dawn to Decadence">From Dawn to Decadence</a>: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present</i>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-092883-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-092883-4">978-0-06-092883-4</a>.</li> <li>2001 <i>Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass</i>. Glimmerglass Opera</li> <li>2002 <i>A Jacques Barzun Reader</i>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-093542-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-093542-9">978-0-06-093542-9</a>.</li> <li>2002 <i>What Is a School? and Trim the College!</i> (<i>What Is a School? An Institution in Limbo, Trim the College! A Utopia</i>). Hudson Institute.</li> <li>2003 <i>The Modern Researcher</i> (6th ed.) (with <a href="/wiki/Henry_Graff" title="Henry Graff">Henry F. Graff</a>). Wadsworth Publishing. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-495-31870-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-495-31870-5">978-0-495-31870-5</a>.</li> <li>2004 <i>Four More Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass: 2001–2004</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jacques_Barzun&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{clear:left;float:left;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/28px-P_vip.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/41px-P_vip.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/55px-P_vip.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1911" data-file-height="1944" /></span></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Biography" title="Portal:Biography">Biography portal</a></span></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_philosophy" title="American philosophy">American philosophy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Lohez_9/11_Scholarship_Foundation" title="Jérôme Lohez 9/11 Scholarship Foundation">Jérôme Lohez 9/11 Scholarship Foundation</a> and their <i>Jacques Barzun Award</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_American_philosophers" title="List of American philosophers">List of American philosophers</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jacques_Barzun&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYaqL9CjKHA">"Remembering Jacques Barzun: The Age of the Individual: 500 Years Ago Today"</a>. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://theedgars.com/awards/">the original</a> on July 31, 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">July 4,</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Search+the+Edgars+Database&rft.pub=Mystery+Writers+of+America&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftheedgars.com%2Fawards%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJacques+Barzun" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Author and teacher Jacques Barzun has written an authoritative introduction". B. Williams, "A Complete Guide for all lovers of horror" (Review of <i>The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural</i>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Courier-Mail" title="The Courier-Mail">The Courier-Mail</a></i>, January 31, 1987.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present</i>, Jacques Barzun, Harper Perennial, 2001.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Later Ego. Consisting of Ego 8 and Ego 9. Introduction and notes by Jacques Barzun</i>, Jacques Barzun, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1951.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Le_Nouvel_Observateur" class="mw-redirect" title="Le Nouvel Observateur">Le Nouvel Observateur</a><i>, which said "il a connu un rayonnement international avec la sortie de "From dawn to decadence". L'historien Jacques Barzun, auteur de "From dawn to decandence", est mort</i> Créé le October 26, 2012 à 07h10, <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/monde/20121026.FAP2051/l-historien-jacques-barzun-auteur-de-from-dawn-to-decandence-est-mort.html">http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/monde/20121026.FAP2051/l-historien-jacques-barzun-auteur-de-from-dawn-to-decandence-est-mort.html</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">William R. Everdell, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/21/books/idea-man.html">"Idea Man"</a>, review of <i>From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present</i> by Jacques Barzun, <i>New York Times</i>, May 21, 2000.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Age of Reason</i> by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Krystal" title="Arthur Krystal">Arthur Krystal</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>, October 22, 2007, p. 103</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Barzun, Jacques. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970204777904576651120765955328">"Book Review: Why Trilling Matters" (Review)</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Wall Street Journal">Wall Street Journal</a></i>, October 29, 2011. Retrieved on July 24, 2014.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>From Dawn to Decadence</i>, pp 654–656</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160823003924/http://www.slu.edu/libraries/associates/award.html">"Website of St. Louis Literary Award"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slu.edu/libraries/associates/award.html">the original</a> on August 23, 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Neh.gov<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">October 28,</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=News+Archive+%26%23124%3B+National+Endowment+for+the+Humanities&rft.pub=Neh.gov&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.neh.gov%2Fnews%2Farchive%2F20110301.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJacques+Barzun" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jacques_Barzun&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists</i> featuring Jacques Barzun. Edited by Nan Cuba and Riley Robinson (<a href="/wiki/Trinity_University_(Texas)#Trinity_University_Press" title="Trinity University (Texas)">Trinity University Press</a>, 2008).</li> <li>Arthur Krystal, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LiteratureEnglish/?view=usa&ci=9780199782406#Description">Except When I Write</a> Oxford University Press, 2011), has a chapter on Barzun. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-978240-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-978240-6">978-0-19-978240-6</a></li> <li>Michael Murray, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.beil.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=175:jacques-barzun&catid=139"><i>Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220730010252/http://www.beil.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=175:jacques-barzun&catid=139">Archived</a> July 30, 2022, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> (Frederic C. Beil, 2011), authorized biography. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-929490-41-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-929490-41-7">978-1-929490-41-7</a></li> <li>Thomas Vinciguerra, "Jacques Barzun '27: Columbia Avatar", Columbia College Today, January 2006</li> <li>Helen Hazen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://theamericanscholar.org/endless-rewriting/#.UUnRzFt4Z_K">"Endless Rewriting"</a>, <i>The American Scholar</i>, Spring 2013. 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