A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise and Reign of the ‘Great Books of the Western World’ Series and the Heyday of the American Middlebrow


A Great Idea at the Time

On pages 172–173 of A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise and Reign of the ‘Great Books of the Western World’ Series and the Heyday of the American Middlebrow by Alex Beam (2008) interviews Clare Pearson, then Chair of the Basic Program, about the program’s past and present.