Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001), an American philosopher, educator,
and popular author, served as the chairman of Encyclopaedia
Britannica's board of editors, was the founder and director of the
Institute for Philosophical Research, and was an honorary trustee
and founder of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. He
authored the well-known How to Read a Book and the intellectual
autobiography Philosopher at Large and was coeditor, with Charles
Van Doren, of Great Treasury of Western Thought, declared the
Reference Book of 1977 by the American Library Association.
Charles Van Doren is an American intellectual, writer, and editor.
He earned a bachelor's degree from St. John's College in Annapolis,
Maryland, and went on to earn a master's in astrophysics and a
doctorate in English from Columbia University, where he later
taught English. He is also the author of A History of
Knowledge.
Edward Holland is an audiobook narrator whose credits include
Confessions of a Spy, Vietnam, and How to Read a Book.
Packed full of high matters which no one solicitous of the future
of American culture can afford to overlook.-- "Jacques Barzun,
scholar and historian"
This newly revised classic guide to reading comprehension for the
general reader offers various techniques for improving and
measuring your progress in reading skill, comprehension, and
speed.-- "New Yorker"
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