Editing Jacques Barzun

{{Short description|French-American historian (1907–2012)}}
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| birth_name         = Jacques Martin Barzun
| name               = 
| image              = Jacques barzun.jpg
| caption            = Painting of Barzun titled ''With Light from a New Dawn'', 1947
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1907|11|30}}
| birth_place        = [[Créteil]], France
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2012|10|25|1907|11|30}}
| death_place        = [[San Antonio]], Texas, U.S.
| occupation         = Historian
| relatives          = [[Lucy Barzun Donnelly]] (granddaughter)<br>[[Matthew Barzun]] (grandson)
| alma_mater         = [[Columbia University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
}}
'''Jacques Martin Barzun''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|ɑr|z|ən}};<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYaqL9CjKHA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/VYaqL9CjKHA| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Remembering Jacques Barzun: The Age of the Individual: 500 Years Ago Today|publisher=Center on Capitalism and Society|date=November 29, 2017|access-date=February 12, 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> November 30, 1907 – October 25, 2012) was a French-born American historian known for his studies of the [[history of ideas]] and [[cultural history]]. He wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, mystery novels, and classical music, and was also known as a [[philosophy of education|philosopher of education]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/arts/jacques-barzun-historian-and-scholar-dies-at-104.html |title=Jacques Barzun Dies at 104; Cultural Critic Saw the Sun Setting on the West |work=[[New York Times]] |author=Edward Rothstein |date=October 25, 2012  |access-date=October 25, 2012 }}</ref> In the book ''Teacher in America'' (1945), Barzun influenced the training of schoolteachers in the United States.

A professor of history at [[Columbia College of Columbia University|Columbia College]] for many years, he published more than forty books, was awarded the American [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]], and was designated a knight of the [[French Legion of Honor]]. The historical retrospective ''[[From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present]]'' (2000), widely considered his ''[[Masterpiece|magnum opus]]'', was published when he was 93 years old.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 26, 2012 |title=Jacques Barzun: An Appreciation |first=Joseph |last=Epstein |newspaper=[[Wall Street Journal]] |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204598504578080902026564368?mod=googlenews_wsj }}</ref>

==Life==
Jacques Martin Barzun was born in [[Créteil]], France, to {{ill|Henri-Martin Barzun|fr}} and Anna-Rose Barzun, and spent his childhood in [[Paris]] and [[Grenoble]]. His father was a member of the [[Abbaye de Créteil]] group of artists and writers, and also worked in the [[Minister of Social Affairs (France)|French Ministry of Labor]].<ref name=gathman>{{cite news| first= Roger |last= Gathman| url= http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=78886 | title= The Man Who Knew Too Much: Jacques Barzun, Idea Man | work= [[The Austin Chronicle]] |date= October 13, 2000 |access-date= September 16, 2009}}</ref> His parents' Paris home was frequented by many [[Modernism|modernist]] artists of ''[[Belle Époque]]'' France, such as the poet [[Guillaume Apollinaire]], the [[Cubist]] painters [[Albert Gleizes]] and [[Marcel Duchamp]], the composer [[Edgard Varèse]], and the writers [[Richard Aldington]] and [[Stefan Zweig]].<ref name=gathman />

While on a diplomatic mission to the United States during the [[First World War]] (1914–1918), Barzun's father so liked the country he decided that his son should receive an American [[university education]]; thus, the twelve-year-old Jacques Martin, after attending the [[Lycée Janson-de-Sailly]], was sent to America, where he graduated from [[Harrisburg Technical High School]] in 1923 and then went off to [[Columbia University]], where he obtained a [[liberal arts education]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kelly|first=Brian P.|title=Jacques Barzun, 1907–2012|url=https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/jacques-barzun-19072012|access-date=2021-10-02|newspaper=The New Criterion|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Beers|first=Paul B|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/761221337|title=City contented, city discontented : a history of modern Harrisburg|publisher=Midtown Scholar Press|year=2011|isbn=978-0-9839571-0-2|pages=129–130|oclc=761221337}}</ref>

As an undergraduate at [[Columbia College of Columbia University|Columbia College]], Barzun was drama critic for the ''[[Columbia Daily Spectator]]'', a prize-winning president of the [[Philolexian Society]], the Columbia literary and debate club, and [[valedictorian]] of the class of 1927.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jan06/cover.php |title=COVER STORY, Living Legacies: Jacques Barzun '27 |author=Thomas Vinciguerra |author-link=Thomas Vinciguerra |work=[[Columbia College Today]] |publisher=College.columbia.edu |date=June 18, 2008 |access-date=October 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031025641/http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jan06/cover.php |archive-date=October 31, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He obtained a master's degree in 1928<ref>''Directory of American Scholars'', 6th ed. (Bowker, 1974), Vol. I, p. 32.</ref> and a Ph.D. in 1932 from Columbia, and taught history there from 1928 to 1955, becoming the [[Seth Low]] Professor of History and a founder of the discipline of [[cultural history]]. For years, he and [[literary criticism|literary critic]] [[Lionel Trilling]] conducted Columbia's famous [[Great Books]] course. He was elected Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1954<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B| url= http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf |publisher= [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]| access-date=May 20, 2011}}</ref> and a member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1984.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Jacques+Barzun&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-05-19 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>

From 1955 to 1968, he served as Dean of the Graduate School, Dean of Faculties, and [[Provost (education)|Provost]], while also being an Extraordinary Fellow of [[Churchill College]] at the [[University of Cambridge]]. From 1968 until his 1975 retirement, he was University Professor at Columbia. From 1951 to 1963 Barzun was one of the managing editors of [[The Readers' Subscription Book Club]], and its successor the [[Mid-Century Book Society]] (the other managing editors being [[W. H. Auden]] and [[Lionel Trilling]]), and afterwards was Literary Adviser to [[Charles Scribner's Sons]], 1975 to 1993.

In 1936, Barzun married Mariana Lowell, a violinist from a [[Lowell family|prominent Boston family]]. They had three children: James, Roger, and Isabel.<ref>{{cite magazine | url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,862171-8,00.html | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080127122550/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,862171-8,00.html | url-status= dead | archive-date= January 27, 2008 | title=Education: Parnassus, Coast to Coast | magazine= [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date=June 11, 1956 | access-date= November 1, 2012}}</ref> Mariana died in 1979. In 1980, Barzun married Marguerite Lee Davenport. From 1996 the Barzuns lived in her hometown, [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]]. His granddaughter [[Lucy Barzun Donnelly]] was a producer of the award-winning [[HBO]] film ''[[Grey Gardens (HBO film)|Grey Gardens]]''. His grandson, [[Matthew Barzun]], is a businessman who served from 2009 to 2011 as the [[United States Ambassador to Sweden|U.S. Ambassador to Sweden]], and from 2013 to 2017 as [[United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom|Ambassador to the United Kingdom]]. On May 14, 2012, Jacques Barzun attended a symphony performance in his honor at which works by his favorite composer, [[Hector Berlioz]], were performed.<ref>{{cite news| first=Deborah | last= Martin | url= http://www.mysanantonio.com/life/article/In-the-Spotlight-Honoring-expert-on-Berlioz-3557449.php | title= In the Spotlight: Honoring expert on Berlioz| work= [[San Antonio Express-News]]| date= May 14, 2012}}</ref> He attended in a wheelchair and delivered a brief address to the crowd.

Barzun died at his home in [[San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio]], [[Texas]] on October 25, 2012, aged 104. ''[[The New York Times]]'', which compared him with such scholars as [[Sidney Hook]], [[Daniel Bell]], and [[Lionel Trilling]], called him a "distinguished historian, essayist, cultural gadfly and educator who helped establish the modern discipline of cultural history".<ref>{{cite news |title=Jacques Barzun Dies at 104; Cultural Critic Saw the Sun Setting on the West |newspaper=New York Times |first=Edward |last=Rothstein | author-link = Edward Rothstein|date=October 25, 2012 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/arts/jacques-barzun-historian-and-scholar-dies-at-104.html }}</ref> Naming [[Edward Gibbon]], [[Jacob Burckhardt]] and [[Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay|Thomas Babington Macaulay]] 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'", ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' remarked, "The sheer scope of his knowledge was extraordinary. Barzun's eye roamed over the full spectrum of Western music, art, literature and philosophy."<ref>{{cite news |title=Jacques Barzun |date=October 26, 2012 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9636970/Jacques-Barzun.html }}</ref> Essayist [[Joseph Epstein (writer)|Joseph Epstein]], remembering him in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' as a "flawless and magisterial" writer who tackled "[[Charles Darwin|Darwin]], [[Karl Marx|Marx]], [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]], [[Hector Berlioz|Berlioz]], [[William James]], [[French verse]], [[English literature|English]] [[prose]] composition, university teaching, [[detective fiction]], [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".<ref>{{cite news |title=Jacques Barzun: An Appreciation |first=Joseph |last=Epstein |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |url= https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204598504578080902026564368 |date=October 26, 2012 }}{{subscription required}}</ref>

==Career==
Over seven decades, Barzun wrote and edited more than forty books touching on an unusually broad range of subjects, including [[science]] and [[medicine]], [[psychiatry]] from [[Robert Burton (scholar)|Robert Burton]] through [[William James]] to modern methods, and [[art]], and [[European classical music|classical music]]; he was one of the all-time authorities on [[Hector Berlioz]]. Some of his books—particularly ''Teacher in America'' and ''The House of Intellect''—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 [[research]]. 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 ''[[Follett's Modern American Usage]]''. Barzun was also the author of books on [[literary genre|literary style]] (''Simple and Direct'', 1975), on the crafts of [[editing]] and [[publishing]] (''On Writing, Editing, and Publishing'', 1971), and on [[research methods]] in [[history]] and the other [[humanities]] (''The Modern Researcher'', which has seen at least six editions, and is one of the thousand most widely held library items according to the OCLC<ref>[http://www.oclc.org/research/top1000/complete.html 2005 OCLC list of 1000  most catalogued items]</ref>).

Barzun did not disdain popular culture: his varied interests included [[detective fiction]] and [[baseball]].<ref name="baseball">{{cite web |url=http://bleacherreport.com/articles/212819-when-baseballs-best-cultural-critic-turned-his-back-on-the-game |title=Jacques Barzun, "Baseball's Best Cultural Critic", Turns His Back on the Game |publisher=bleacherreport.com |date=July 6, 2009 |access-date=October 26, 2012}}</ref>  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 [[Baseball Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Jacques Barzun, wide-ranging cultural historian, dies at 104 |first=Joe |last=Holley |newspaper=Washington Post |date=October 26, 2012 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jacques-barzun-wide-ranging-cultural-historian-dies-at-104/2012/10/26/33a202c4-c5da-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html }}</ref> He edited and wrote the introduction to the 1961 anthology, ''The Delights of Detection'', which included stories by [[G. K. Chesterton]], [[Dorothy L. Sayers]], [[Rex Stout]], and others.  In 1971, Barzun co-authored (with Wendell Hertig Taylor), ''[[A Catalogue of Crime]]: Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, & Related Genres'', for which he and his co-author received a Special [[Edgar Award]] from the [[Mystery Writers of America]] the following year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://theedgars.com/awards/ |title=Search the Edgars Database |publisher=[[Mystery Writers of America]] |access-date=2015-07-04 |archive-date=July 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731232503/http://theedgars.com/awards/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Barzun was also an advocate
of [[supernatural fiction]], and wrote the introduction to ''[[The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural]]''.<ref>"Author and teacher Jacques Barzun has written an authoritative introduction". B. Williams, "A Complete Guide for all lovers
of horror" (Review of ''The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural''. ''[[The Courier-Mail]]'', January 31, 1987.</ref>  Barzun was a proponent of the theatre critic and diarist [[James Agate]], whom he compared in stature to [[Samuel Pepys]].<ref>''From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present'', Jacques Barzun, Harper Perennial, 2001.</ref>  Barzun edited Agate's last two diaries into a new edition in 1951 and wrote an informative introductory essay, "Agate and His Nine Egos".<ref>''The Later Ego. Consisting of Ego 8 and Ego 9. Introduction and notes by Jacques Barzun'', Jacques Barzun, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1951.</ref>

[[Image:From Dawn to Decadence.JPG|thumb|right|175px|''From Dawn to Decadence'' by Jacques Barzun]]
Jacques Barzun continued to write on education and cultural history after retiring from Columbia. At 84 years of age, he began writing his [[swan song]], to which he devoted the better part of the 1990s. The resulting book of more than 800 pages, ''From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present'', revealed a vast erudition and brilliance undimmed by advanced age. Historians, literary critics, and popular reviewers all lauded ''From Dawn to Decadence'' as a sweeping and powerful survey of modern Western history, and it became a ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' bestseller. With this work he gained an international reputation.<ref>[[Le Nouvel Observateur]]'', 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
Créé le October 26, 2012 à 07h10, http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/monde/20121026.FAP2051/l-historien-jacques-barzun-auteur-de-from-dawn-to-decandence-est-mort.html</ref> Reviewing it in the [[The New York Times|''New York Times'']], historian [[William Everdell]] 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 [[Walt Whitman]] and [[Karl Marx]].<ref>William R. Everdell, [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/21/books/idea-man.html "Idea Man"], review of ''From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present'' by Jacques Barzun, ''New York Times'', May 21, 2000.</ref>
The book introduces several novel [[typographic]] 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 [[sidebar (publishing)|sidebar]] 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."<ref>''Age of Reason'' by [[Arthur Krystal]] in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', October 22, 2007, p. 103</ref> As late as October 2011, one month before his 104th birthday, he reviewed [[Adam Kirsch]]'s ''Why Trilling Matters'' for the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]''.<ref>Barzun, Jacques. [https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970204777904576651120765955328 "Book Review: Why Trilling Matters" (Review)]. ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', October 29, 2011. Retrieved on July 24, 2014.</ref>

In his philosophy of writing history, Barzun emphasized the role of storytelling over the use of academic jargon and detached analysis. He concluded in ''From Dawn to Decadence'' that "history cannot be a science; it is the very opposite, in that its interest resides in the particulars".<ref>''From Dawn to Decadence'', pp 654–656</ref>

==Recognition==
In 1968, Barzun received the [[St. Louis Literary Award]] from the [[Saint Louis University]] Library Associates.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.slu.edu/libraries/associates/award.html |title=Website of St. Louis Literary Award |access-date=July 25, 2016 |archive-date=August 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823003924/http://www.slu.edu/libraries/associates/award.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://lib.slu.edu/about/associates/literary-award |title=Recipients of the Saint Louis Literary Award |author=Saint Louis University Library Associates |access-date=July 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731082313/http://lib.slu.edu/about/associates/literary-award |archive-date=July 31, 2016 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Barzun was appointed a Chevalier of the National Order of the [[Legion of Honour]].<ref>Krystal, Arthur, "Age of Reason: In his hundred years, Jacques Barzun has learned a thing or two." ''[[The New Yorker]]'', October 22, 2007</ref> In 2003, he was awarded the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] by President [[George W. Bush]].

In 1993, his book "An Essay on French Verse: For Readers of English Poetry" won the [[Poetry Society of America]]'s Melville Cane Poetry Award.

On October 18, 2007, he received the 59th Great Teacher Award of the Society of Columbia Graduates ''[[award in absentia|in absentia]]''.

On March 2, 2011, Barzun was awarded the 2010 [[National Humanities Medal]] by President [[Barack Obama]], although he was not expected to be in attendance.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/01/president-obama-award-2010-national-medal-arts-and-national-humanities-m |title=President Obama to Award 2010 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal &#124; The White House |date=March 1, 2011 |via=[[NARA|National Archives]] |work=[[whitehouse.gov]] |access-date=October 28, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/20110301.html |title=News Archive &#124; National Endowment for the Humanities |publisher=Neh.gov |access-date=October 28, 2012}}</ref> On April 16, 2011, he received the Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement ''in absentia''.

The [[American Philosophical Society]] 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 [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]], of which he was twice president.

==Works==
*1927 ''Samplings and Chronicles: Being the Continuation of the Philolexian Society History, with Literary Selections from 1912 to 1927 '' (editor). Philolexian Society.
*1932 ''The French Race: Theories of Its Origins and Their Social and Political Implications''. P.S. King & Son.
*1937 ''Race: A Study in Modern Superstition'' (Revised, 1965 ''Race: A Study in Superstition''). Methuen & Co. Ltd.
*1939 ''Of Human Freedom''. Revised edition, Greenwood Press Reprint, 1977: {{ISBN|0-8371-9321-4}}.
*1941 ''Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage''. {{ISBN|978-1-4067-6178-8}}.
*1943 ''Romanticism and the Modern Ego''. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1943.
*1945 ''Teacher in America''. Reprint Liberty Fund, 1981. {{ISBN|0-913966-79-7}}.  Also published as: ''We Who Teach''. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1946.
*1950 ''Berlioz and the Romantic Century''. Boston: Little, Brown and Company / An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1950 [2 vols.].
*1951 ''Pleasures of Music: A Reader's Choice of Great Writing About Music and Musicians From Cellini to Bernard Shaw'' Viking Press.
*1954 ''God's Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love, Spiced with a Few Harsh Words''. Reprint Greenwood Press, 1973: {{ISBN|0-8371-6860-0}}.
*1956 ''Music in American Life''. Indiana University Press.
*1956 ''The Energies of Art: Studies of Authors, Classic and Modern''. Greenwood, {{ISBN|0-8371-6856-2}}.
*1959 ''The House of Intellect''. Reprint Harper Perennial, 2002: {{ISBN|978-0-06-010230-2}}.
*1960 ''Lincoln: The Literary Genius'' (first published in ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'', February 14, 1959)
*1961 ''The Delights of Detection''. Criterion Books.
*1961 ''Classic, Romantic, and Modern''. Reprint University of Chicago Press, 1975: {{ISBN|0-226-03852-1}}.
*1964 ''Science: The Glorious Entertainment''. HarperCollins. {{ISBN|0-06-010240-3}}.
*1967 ''What Man Has Built'' (introductory booklet to the Great Ages of Man book series). Time Inc.
*1968 ''The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going''. Reprint University of Chicago Press, 1993: {{ISBN|0-226-03845-9}}.
*1969 ''Berlioz and the Romantic Century'' (3d ed.).
*1971 ''On Writing, Editing, and Publishing''. University of Chicago Press.
*1971 ''[[A Catalogue of Crime|A Catalogue of Crime: Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres]]'' (with Wendell Hertig Taylor). Revised edition, Harper & Row, 1989: {{ISBN|0-06-015796-8}}.
*1974 ''Clio and the Doctors''. Reprinted University of Chicago Press, 1993: {{ISBN|0-226-03851-3}}.
*1974 ''The Use and Abuse of Art'' ([[A. W. Mellon Lectures]] in the Fine Arts) . Princeton University Press. {{ISBN|0-691-01804-9}}.
*1975 ''Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers''. 4th ed, Harper Perennial, 2001: {{ISBN|0-06-093723-8}}.
*1976 ''The Bibliophile of the Future:  His Complaints about the Twentieth Century'' (Maury A. Bromsen lecture in humanistic bibliography). Boston Public Library. {{ISBN|0-89073-048-2}}.
*1980 ''Three Talks at Northern Kentucky University''. Northern Kentucky University, Dept. of Literature and Language.
*1982 ''Lincoln's Philosophic Vision''. Artichokes Creative Studios.
*1982 ''Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940–1980'' (edited by Bea Friedland). University of Chicago Press. {{ISBN|0-226-03864-5}}.
*1982 ''Berlioz and His Century: An Introduction to the Age of Romanticism'' (Abridgment of ''Berlioz and the Romantic Century''). University of Chicago Press. {{ISBN|0-226-03861-0}}.
*1983 ''A Stroll with William James''. Reprint University of Chicago Press, 2002: {{ISBN|978-0-226-03869-8}}.
*1986 ''A Word or Two Before You Go: Brief Essays on Language''. Wesleyan University.
*1989 ''The Culture We Deserve: A Critique of Disenlightenment''. Wesleyan University. {{ISBN|0-8195-6237-8}}.
*1991 ''An Essay on French Verse: For Readers of English Poetry''. New Directions Publishing. {{ISBN|0-8112-1158-4}}.
*1991 ''Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning''. University of Chicago Press. {{ISBN|0-226-03846-7}}.
*2000 ''[[From Dawn to Decadence]]: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present''. {{ISBN|978-0-06-092883-4}}.
*2001 ''Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass''. Glimmerglass Opera
*2002 ''A Jacques Barzun Reader''. {{ISBN|978-0-06-093542-9}}.
*2002 ''What Is a School? and Trim the College!'' (''What Is a School? An Institution in Limbo, Trim the College! A Utopia''). Hudson Institute.
*2003 ''The Modern Researcher'' (6th ed.) (with [[Henry Graff|Henry F. Graff]]). Wadsworth Publishing. {{ISBN|978-0-495-31870-5}}.
*2004 ''Four More Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass: 2001–2004''

==See also==
{{portal|Biography}}
*[[American philosophy]]
*[[Jérôme Lohez 9/11 Scholarship Foundation]] and their ''Jacques Barzun Award''
*[[List of American philosophers]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==Sources==
*''Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists'' featuring Jacques Barzun. Edited by Nan Cuba and Riley Robinson ([[Trinity University (Texas)#Trinity University Press|Trinity University Press]], 2008).
*Arthur Krystal, [http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LiteratureEnglish/?view=usa&ci=9780199782406#Description Except When I Write] Oxford University Press, 2011), has a chapter on Barzun. {{ISBN|978-0-19-978240-6}}
*Michael Murray, [http://www.beil.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=175:jacques-barzun&catid=139 ''Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730010252/http://www.beil.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=175:jacques-barzun&catid=139 |date=July 30, 2022 }} (Frederic C. Beil, 2011), authorized biography. {{ISBN|978-1-929490-41-7}}
*Thomas Vinciguerra, "Jacques Barzun '27: Columbia Avatar", Columbia College Today, January 2006
*Helen Hazen, [http://theamericanscholar.org/endless-rewriting/#.UUnRzFt4Z_K "Endless Rewriting"], ''The American Scholar'', Spring 2013.  On being edited by Barzun.

==External links==
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*[[Aeschliman, Michael D.]], [https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/jacques-barzun-historian-for-all-time/ "Jacques Barzun, Historian for All Time"], ''National Review'', May 30, 2021
*[http://barzuncentennial.murphywong.net/ Barzun Centennial] website, including tributes
*[http://www.the-rathouse.com/JacquesBarzun.html Site] devoted to writings about Barzun, including interviews
*[[Roger Kimball|Kimball, Roger]], "[http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Barzun-on-the-West-2631 Barzun on the West]," ''New Criterion'', June 18, 2000
*[http://vimeo.com/16549938 Society of Columbia Graduates 2007 Great Teacher Award presented to Jacques Barzun], includes speeches by Henry F. Graff, William Theodore de Bary, [[Alan Brinkley]], and others
*[http://vimeo.com/16521540 Jacques Barzun] Video shown at the 2007 Great Teacher Award banquet
*[[Harry Eyres|Eyres, Harry]], "[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ec7b546c-a668-11df-8767-00144feabdc0.html Honour and Humanity]," ''Financial Times'', August 14, 2010
*[http://cantheseboneslive.blogspot.com/2012/10/remembering-work-of-jacques-barzun.html Remembering the Work of Jacques Barzun] Review of Barzun's Life and Work, October 26, 2012
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*[http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=961&Itemid=99999999 The Intellectual Portrait Series: A Conversation with Jacques Barzun] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020174548/http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=961&Itemid=99999999 |date=October 20, 2012 }}, Liberty Fund, 2000
*[http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=78886 Interview with Barzun in The Austin Chronicle, 2000]
*[http://oldnewyorkstories.com/post/11666981759/jacques-barzun Jacques Barzun interview], April 23, 2009, Old New York Stories, 2011
*[http://vimeo.com/16423966 A Conversation with Jacques Barzun (2010)] SoL Center, San Antonio TX, September 12, 2010
*[http://ahdictionary.tumblr.com/post/35775225796/jacques-barzun The American Heritage® Dictionary Blog: Jacques Barzun] his responses to a 2012 questionnaire
*[https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079628 Finding aid to the Jacques Barzun papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library]

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