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This historian's analyses of Abraham Lincoln include a 1982 Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture titled "Lincoln's Philosophic Vision" and a book about Lincoln's "Literary Genius." With Lionel Trilling, he taught the class "The Colloquium of Important Books" and advocated the core curriculum at Columbia; there, protests broke out after he published an attack on U.S. schools entitled The American University. The first two sections of one of his books open by analyzing the Protestant revolution and the "Monarch's Revolution," That book uses the abbreviation c, as in 15c, to designate centuries. At age 93, this author of the introductory book The Modern Researcher published his magnum opus, which examines modern cultural decline at the close of "500 Years of Western Cultural Life." For 10 points, name this French-American historian, the author of From Dawn to Decadence.
This historian's analyses of Abraham Lincoln include a 1982 Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture titled "Lincoln's Philosophic Vision" and a book about Lincoln's "Literary Genius."
Jacques Barzun [or Jacques Martin Barzun]