Andrew Delbanco
Andrew Delbanco is Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies at Columbia. He is working on a book on college education, to be published next year. (May 2009)
From the Review
May 14, 2009: The Universities in Trouble
Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment by David F. Swensen
Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education by Peter Sacks
Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites by Mitchell L. Stevens
Trends in College Spending: Where Does the Money Come From? Where Does It Go? by Jane V. Wellman and others
Fulfilling the Commitment: Recommendations for Reforming Federal Student Aid in Brief by Sandy Baum, Michael McPherson, and others
November 6, 2008: A Fateful Election
April 3, 2008: The Right-Wing Christians
Head and Heart: American Christianities by Garry Wills
May 31, 2007: 'Scandals of Higher Education' (letter)
April 26, 2007: 'Scandals of Higher Education': An Exchange
March 29, 2007: Scandals of Higher Education
Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education by William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin, in collaboration with Susanne C. Pichler
The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates by Daniel Golden
The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality by Walter Benn Michaels
Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America by Donald N. Levine
Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More by Derek Bok
Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education by Harry R. Lewis
March 24, 2005: The Endangered University
Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education by Derek Bok
The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle,and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment by Geoffrey Kabaservice
Distinctively American: The Residential Liberal Arts Colleges edited by Steven Koblik and Stephen R. Graubard
Stover at Yale by Owen Johnson
Liberal Education and the Public Interest by James O. Freedman
March 10, 2005: Colleges: An Endangered Species?
Stover at Yale by Owen Johnson
The Future of the Public University in America: Beyond the Crossroads by James J. Duderstadt and Farris W. Womack
Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education by David L. Kirp
The Uses of the University by Clark Kerr
February 27, 2003: In Memoriam
Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca edited and with an introduction by Alexander Star
September 20, 2001: An Experiment in Darkness
The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language by Ernest Freeberg
The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl by Elisabeth Gitter
January 11, 2001: Night Vision
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays by Lionel Trilling, edited and with an introduction by Leon Wieseltier
April 13, 2000: 'The Decline & Fall of Literature': An Exchange
January 20, 2000: Sunday in the Park with Fred
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century by Witold Rybczynski
November 4, 1999: The Decline and Fall of Literature
In Plato's Cave by Alvin Kernan
The Death of Literature by Alvin Kernan
Literature: An Embattled Profession by Carl Woodring
What's Happened to the Humanities? edited by Alvin Kernan
The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline by Robert Scholes
The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies by Michael Bérubé
Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities by John M. Ellis
July 16, 1998: On Alfred Kazin (1915–1998)
September 25, 1997: The Risk of Freedom
Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography by Roger Shattuck
May 15, 1997: The Great Leviathan
Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819-1851 by Hershel Parker
April 4, 1996: Melville's Fever
Pierre, or the Ambiguities by Herman Melville, edited by Hershel Parker, pictures by Maurice Sendak
Pierre, or the Ambiguities. Historical Note by Leon Howard and Hershel Parker. by Herman Melville, edited by Harrison Hayford, by Hershel Parker, by G. Thomas Tanselle, Historical Note by Leon Howard, by Hershel Parker
November 23, 1989: Lyrical Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men edited by Richard Lehan
Books by Andrew Delbanco
The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope (1999)
Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now (1997)
The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil (1995)
The Puritan Ordeal (1989)
William Ellery Channing: An Essay on the Liberal Spirit in America (1981)