Civic Illiteracy and the American Cultural HeritageThe Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students.Allan BloomCultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know.E. D. Hirsch, Jr.What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature.Diane Ravitch , Chester E. Finn, Jr.American Memory: A Report

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The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. By Allan Bloom. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. Pp. 392. $18.95 cloth, $7.95 paper.) Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. By E. D. Hirsch, Jr. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. Pp. xi, 250. $16.95 cloth, $4.95 paper.) What Do Our 1 7-Year-Olds Know? A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature. By Diane Ravitch and Chester E. Finn, Jr. (New York: Harper and Row, 1987. Pp. ix, 293. $15.95.) American Memory: A Report on the Humanities in the Nation's Public Schools. By Lynne V. Cheney. (Washington, DC: National Endowment for the Humanities, 1987. Pp. vi, 29. $2.00.)