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The project for the Great Books of the Western World began at the University of Chicago, where the president, Robert Hutchins, worked with Mortimer Adler to develop there a course of a type originated by John Erskine at Columbia University in 1921, with the innovation of a "round table" approach to reading and discussing great books among professors and undergraduates.
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The book with the biggest punch, though, is The American Promise: A History of the United States.It appears on 3,273 syllabi in Texas, making it the book with the most assignations in any one state.
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Eliot's letter describing the selection process in a letter to the editor, p.7, Collier's, July 24, 1909 In a June 1909 issue of Collier's Weekly, P.F. Collier & Son announced it would publish a series of books selected by Eliot, without disclosing the list of included works, that would be approximately five feet in length and would supply the readers a liberal education.
The following is a list of books written by Samuel Eliot Morison, arranged chronologically. [1] Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. A History of the Constitution of Massachusetts. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1917. The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783–1860. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1921.
For our list, we chose classic books written in the 20th century or earlier, and every book on this list is more than 25 years old. We combed through best-seller lists of old to dig up books that ...