Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses - Hardcover

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This new collection of essays by the author of Life at the Bottom bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. In these pieces, Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the breakdown of Islam to the legalization of drugs. Here is a book that restores our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization. Theodore Dalrymple is the best doctor-writer since William Carlos Williams. ―Peggy Noonan. Includes When Islam Breaks Down, named the best journal article of 2004 by David Brooks of the New York Times.

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Theodore Dalrymple is a British doctor and writer who has worked on four continents and now practices in a British inner-city hospital and a prison. He has written a column for the London Spectator for thirteen years and is a contributing editor for City Journal in the United States. His earlier collection of essays, Life at the Bottom, was widely praised.
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Dalrymple writes a clear and considered prose that makes him formidable indeed. -- David Pryce–Jones, Book Review Digest

Theodore Dalrymple has succeeded (once more) in publishing a book that is both thoughtful and absorbing. -- Paul Hollander, New York Sun

The brutal, penetrating honesty of his thinking and the vividness of his prose make Theodore Dalrymple the George Orwell of our time. -- Denis Dutton, Editor, Arts and Letters Daily

His gift for storytelling will keep readers turning pages., The Christian Century

Theodore Dalrymple is the best doctor-writer since William Carlos Williams. -- Peggy Noonan

There is so much learning and unconventional wisdom in it that you want to make the reading last. -- Norman Stone

Theodore Dalrymple is the Edmund Burke of our age.... Our Culture, What's Left of It is not simply an important book, it is a necessary one. -- Roger Kimball

Dalrymple's moral courage shines through the most. Compelling reading; highly recommended., Library Journal

Engrossing. Dalrymple is intelligent, witty, uncommonly perceptive about human affairs, and scathingly honest about human folly. -- Edward J. Sozanski, The Philadelphia Inquirer

It's rare for someone to produce a work on social issues that is so readable. -- Kevin Walker, Tampa Tribune

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  • PublisherIvan R. Dee
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 1566636434
  • ISBN 13 9781566636438
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages356
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