The Washington Post, October 8th, 1992
Allan Bloom, author of the 1987 best-seller "The Closing of the American Mind," a scathing critique of America's colleges and universities, died Oct. 7 in Chicago. He was 62. Mr. Bloom, a University of Chicago professor, died of peptic ulcer bleeding complicated by liver failure, school officials said. His book, subtitled "How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students," challenged universities to return to a more traditional, classic curriculum. Saul Bellow, a Nobel Prize winning author who was a close friend and colleague, praised Mr. Bloom for his t...
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