Louis Menand

Louis Menand
Born	(1952-01-21) January 21, 1952 (age 73) Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Occupations	Critic essayist professor
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for History (2002) National Humanities Medal (2015)
Academic background
Education	Pomona College (BA) Columbia University (MA, PhD)

Books

• Menand, Louis (1987). Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   0195040694.
• —, ed. (1996). The Future of Academic Freedom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN   0226520048.
• —, ed. (1997). Pragmatism: A Reader. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN   0679775447.
• — (2001). The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN   0374199639.
• — (2002). American Studies . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN   0374104344.
• — (2010). The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University . New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN   9780393062755.
• — (2021). The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN   9780374722913. ^{[a] [b]}

Essays and reporting

• Menand, Louis (November 14, 2011). "Getting real". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker . 87 (36): 76–83. Retrieved 2014-04-24. Reviews Gaddis, John Lewis. George F. Kennan : an American life. Penguin.
• — (July 2, 2012). "Silence, exile, punning : James Joyce's chance encounters". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 88 (19): 70–75.
• — (March 4, 2013). "How the Deal went down : saving democracy in the Depression". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker . 89 (3): 69–74. Retrieved 2015-05-11. Reviews Katznelson, Ira. Fear itself : the New Deal and the origins of our time. Liveright.
• — (July 8–15, 2013). "The color of law : voting rights and the Southern way of life". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 89 (20): 80–89.
• — (September 30, 2013). "Nukes of hazard". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker . 89 (30): 76–80. Retrieved 2015-03-03. Reviews Schlosser, Eric (2013). Command and Control . Penguin. ISBN   9781594202278.
• — (October 21, 2013). "The Norman invasion : the crazy career of Norman Mailer". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 89 (33): 86–95.
• — (March 24, 2014). "The de Man case : does a critic's past explain his criticism?". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker . 90 (5): 87–93. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
• — (October 20, 2014). "Crooner in rights spat : are copyright laws too strict?". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker . 90 (32): 84–89. Retrieved 2014-12-23.
• — (March 23, 2015). "A friend of the Devil : inside a famous Cold War deception". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 91 (5): 84–90. ^[c]
• — (June 20, 2016). "What it is like to like : art and taste in the age of the Internet". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 92 (18): 73–76.
• — (October 10, 2016). "He's back : Karl Marx, yesterday and today". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 92 (32): 90–97. ^[d]
• — (May 1, 2017). "Op de stez : Norman Podhoretz's classic success story". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 93 (11): 63–69. ^[e]
• — (February 26, 2018). "Made in Vietnam : Edward Lansdale and the war over the war". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 96 (15): 63–69. Reviews Max Boot, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam, Liveright / W.W. Norton & Co., 2018).
• — (September 30, 2019). "Merit badges : is higher education an engine of social injustice?". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker: 75–80. ^[f]
• — (June 1, 2020). "The Big Heinie : how Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig brought stardom to America's pastime". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 96 (15): 54–59. ^[g]
• — (March 22, 2021). "Change your life : the lessons of the New Left". American Chronicles. The New Yorker. 97 (5): 46–53. ^[h]
• — (August 22, 2022). "Drawing lines : our undemocratic democracy". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 98 (25): 65–68. ^[i]
• — (September 19, 2022). "Disgraced: What Happened to Rudy Giuliani?". American Chronicles. The New Yorker. 98 (30): 71–75. ^[j]
• — (February 6, 2023). "Making the news : the press, the state, and the state of the press". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 98 (48): 59–65. ^[k]
• — (November 20, 2023). "The war on Chaplin". The New Yorker. 99 (38): 60–64. ^[l]
• — (July 22, 2024). "What Happened to the Yuppie?". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 100: 58–62. ^[m]

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Bibliography notes

1. Menand, Louis (2021-04-20). The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN   978037472291-3.
2. "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand". The Objective Standard. 2021-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
3. Online version is titled "When the C.I.A. duped college students".
4. Online version is titled "Karl Marx, yesterday and today".
5. Online version is titled "The book that scandalized the New York intellectuals".
6. Reviews Tough, Paul, The years that matter most. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt., Markovitz, Daniel, The meritocracy trap. Penguin.
7. Online version is titled "How baseball players became celebrities".
8. Online version is titled "The making of the New Left".
9. Online version is titled "American democracy was never designed to be democratic".
10. Online version is titled "Was Rudy Giuliani Always So Awful?".
11. Online version is titled "When Americans lost faith in the news".
12. Review of Scott Eyman, Charlie Chaplin vs. America, Simon & Schuster, 2023.
13. Online version is titled "When Yuppies Ruled".

References

1. "Big Think Interview With Louis Menand", bigthink.com , 26 April 2010.
2. Alexis Tonti, and Louis Menand, “Louis Menand Reaches Critical Mass.” Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art no. 48, 2011, pp. 72–85. online
3. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
4. "Starr Named to Academy". Pomona College Magazine. Pomona College. 24 June 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
5. Louis Menand official website
6. Daniel D'Onofrio (April 3, 2018). "Four scholars win Arts and Sciences Professorships". The Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
7. Jill Radsken (September 15, 2016). "Menand wins National Humanities Medal". The Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
8. Greif, Mark (2021-05-05). "The Opportunists". The Atlantic. ISSN   2151-9463 . Retrieved 2024-03-16.

External links

• Louis Menand official website  : recent articles, biography, books
• Harvard University Department of English faculty listing for Menand
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Menand's humorous exegesis of The Cat in the Hat on NPR's All Things Considered (link to Windows Media and RealMedia audio)
• Louis Menand on writing – (in the New Yorker )
• "Cat People: What Dr. Seuss really taught us" -(in the New Yorker )
• This Week in Media Rogues Article from The New York Observer about Louis Menand's review of "Wild Bill Donovan" in The New Yorker
• Letters to a Young Writer, Louis Menand to a letter, Narrative Magazine, (Fall 2010).
• Sun, Kevin, "Who is Louis Menand?", Harvard Crimson, October 20, 2011.

Interviews

• Louis Menand on Reforming U.S. Universities from NPR's All Things Considered (Air Date: 1/18/10)
• Menand interview on The Metaphysical Club on All Things Considered (link to WM and RM audio)
• "New New York Intellectual: An Interview with Louis Menand" at the Wayback Machine (archived March 9, 2005) in the Minnesota Review, (June 1, 2001).
• Roberts, Russ (May 31, 2010). "Menand on Psychiatry". EconTalk . Library of Economics and Liberty.