Louis Menand Audio & Video

In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years.

Louis Menand, professor of English and American literature and language in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University and a member of the Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty, is the author of The Metaphysical Club (2001)…

American Studies, the latest book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Louis Menand, collects Menand's striking re-examinations of American cultural icons...

The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas.

Louis Menand masterfully weaves pivotal late 19th-and early 20th-century events, colorful biographical anecdotes, and abstract ideas into a narrative whole that both enthralls and enlightens.

According to Harvard professor Louis Menand, at a time when competition to get into and succeed in college has never been more intense, universities are providing a less useful education. In The Marketplace of Ideas, he assesses what is important in a traditional university---and what is not.

Menand's latest journey through American cultural history.