The author of Darwin, Marx, Wagner, he is best known for his historical analyses such as The Use and Abuse of Art and The House of Intellect.  
Guillaume Apollinaire taught him how to tell time.  His father argued with another poet over the invention of "simultaneous poetry," though this man made his breakthrough as a historian and educator, penning such works as Race: A Study in Modern Superstition and 1968's The American University.  The author of Darwin, Marx, Wagner, he is best known for his historical analyses such as The Use and Abuse of Art and The House of Intellect.  FTP, identify this French historian who wrote 2000's From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present.
Guillaume Apollinaire taught him how to tell time.  His father argued with another poet over the invention of "simultaneous poetry," though this man made his breakthrough as a historian and educator, penning such works as Race: A Study in Modern Superstition and 1968's The American University.  
Jacques Barzun