Great Books

Just over 100 years ago Columbia's John Erskine started a General Honors program that was the precursor of the Great Books programs popularized by his student, Mortimer Adler. As a set term "e;Great Books"e; has elicited more than some controversy, especially because most relatively short lists of such works mostly features "e;dead white men"e;. However, most any group in America has made the Great Ideas their own. This book explores the benefits of reading "e;Great Books,"e; and is virtually unique in detailing what a series of Great Books classes has looked like over the past decades.