Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge

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213 , index Adler, Mortimer, 4, 42 advertising, 164–65 African Americans: college enrollment by, 52; literacy of, 36, 45; literary societies of, 37 agents, literary, 151 Amazon.com, 166–67 Ambrose, Stephen: earnings of, 105; Undaunted Courage, 127, 156, 161–62 analogy, 121–26 anthropology: Geertz on, 131–32, 133, 135–36; popularization of, 95, 103, 109–10, 113–14, 119, 134–35, 147–48 appendixes, 154 Arendt, Hannah, Eichmann in Jerusalem, 148 Armed Services editions, 46–47 astronomy, popularization of, 20–21, 23, 77, 118, 123, 154, 184–85 audience: in eighteenth century, 30–35; growth of, 26, 28; in Middle Ages, 27–28; in nineteenth century, 35–40; in sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , 29–30. See also reading authorship: in academe, 16–19, 66–73; in nineteenth century, 40; as profession, 30–32 back matter, 153–54 Bancroft, George, 39 Barber, edwin, 102–3, 148–49 Barrow, John d.: on analogy, 121–22; The Origin of the Universe, 125; Pi in the Sky, 120, 128, 136 Barthes, Roland, 16–17 Bell, daniel, The End of Ideology, 130 Bellesiles, Michael, Arming America, 158 Bemis, Samuel Flagg, John Quincy Adams, 158–59 Benedict, Ruth, 131–32 Berlinski, david, A Tour of the Calculus, 185 bestsellers: definitions of, 12; and reading choices, 48–49; royalties on, 103; timeliness of, 127–31 bias, handling of, 131–35 Bibby, Geoffrey: on popularization, 95; The Testimony of the Spade, 113–14 Bible, translation of, 1–2 bibliographies, 153 biography: as organizing principle, 108– 13; popularity of, 39 biology, popularization of, 22, 108–9, 116–17, 126, 128, 130–31, 136, 144– 46, 155 Blackstone, William, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 32, 34 214฀฀ index Bloom, Allan, The Closing of the American Mind, 56, 129 Bloom, Harold, 90, 100 blurbs, 165–66 book clubs, 36, 182 Book-of-the-Month Club, 49, 177–78 books: and continuing education, 59; cost of, 2, 4, 30, 37–38; as research products, 66–67 booksellers, 166–67 Borges, Jorge Luis, 47, 125 Brockman, John, 151 Brodie, Fawn, Thomas Jefferson, 127, 142 Calvino, italo, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, 21, 170–71 Canfield, Cass, 148, 149–50 canon: debates over, 56–57; and Norton Anthology, 53 Carnegie, Andrew, 37 Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring, 130, 148 Catton, Bruce: Glory Road, 156–57; Mr. Lincoln’s Army, 154 censorship, 3 Ceram, C. W., Gods, Graves, and Scholars, 109–10 Chambers, Robert, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, 41 classics, as elite discipline, 82 Coles, Robert, 148 collaboration, between author and reader, 139–46, 185–86 colleges: curricula of, 55–58; enrollment in, 46, 50–52, 54–55; student expectations for, 58 Coon, Carleton, 103 Cooper, James Fenimore, 11, 39 Copernicus, De Revolutionibus, 29–30 copyright, 9 core curriculum, 56 Cousteau, Jacques, 148 criticism: of documentation, 157–58; and genre, 22–23 cultural diversity, 56–58 cultural studies, 179–80 curriculum, debates over, 55–58 darwin, Charles, 7, 24; The Origin of Species, 94 dawkins, Richard, 89 de Kruif, Paul, The Microbe Hunters, 108–9 design: of book’s interior, 154, 162–63; of dust jacket, 160–62; purpose of, 159–60 dewey, Melvil, 8 dewey decimal System, 8, 19 diagrams, 155 discovery, as organizing principle, 139–46 distribution requirements, 56, 57–58 doctorow, e. L., on fiction and nonfiction , 188 durant, Ariel: influence of, 178; The Story of Civilization, 43 durant, Will: influence of, 178; The Story of Civilization, 43; The Story of Philosophy, 43 dust jackets, 160–62 e-books, 188 economics, popularization of, 32–34, 95, 103, 111, 120–21, 132–34 editors, roles of, 150–53, 168 education: after college, 58–60; federal aid to, 51; public, 45–46; and reading , 46–50 egalitarianism, and self-help books, 15 eliot, Charles W., 4, 42 encyclopedias, 32–33 engineering, popularization of, 107–8, 114, 118, 122–24, 128, 136, 154, 157 enlightenment, 3, 30 epstein, Jason, 148, 150, 158 erskine, John, 42 essays, popularity of, 16 index฀ 215 etiquette books, 14 evans-Pritchard, Sir edward evan, 133 examples, use of, 133–34 fiction: attitudes toward, 8–11; versus nonfiction, 19–24 Fisher-Hoch, Susan, Level 4, 130 “five-foot shelf,” 4, 42 foreign affairs, 130 Fortey, Richard, Trilobite, 115–16, 124, 125–26, 136–37 Franzen, Jonathan, 22, 181 fraud, 11, 71, 158 front matter, 153 Fukuyama, Francis, The End of History, 130 Fussell, Paul: on writing, 100; The Great War and...