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    Jacques Martin Barzun (/ˈbɑːrzən/; November 30, 1907 – October 25, 2012) was a French-born American historian known for his studies of the history of...
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    writers with a newfound sense of freedom through rebellion. The historian Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) gives a definition of decadence which is independent from...
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  • (1987–1997) Jacques Barzun (1907–2012), French-born American historian Jacques Beckers (1934–2021), Dutch-born American astrophysicist Jacques Bessan (born...
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    (1989) [1935], Gay, Peter (ed.), The Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Series editor, Jacques Barzun, Yale University Press Conrad, Felicity (2008), "Rousseau...
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  • Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life is a book written by Jacques Barzun. Published in 2000, it is a large-scale survey history of trends in...
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  • Barzun may refer to: Jacques Barzun, French-American historian Matthew Barzun, US diplomat and business executive Barzun, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a town...
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    Matthew Winthrop Barzun (born October 23, 1970) is an American businessman, diplomat and political fundraiser who served as the United States Ambassador...
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  • 1967 novel Why Are We in Vietnam? by Norman Mailer, a 1991 essay by Jacques Barzun, the 2001 psychological drama film Donnie Darko, and a scene in the...
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    author works to formula; in one sense, the plot never varies," wrote Jacques Barzun. "Having said this, one must add that the variety of persons and circumstances...
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    Introduction to the NYRB Classics 2001 reprint), Nick Cave, Samuel Beckett and Jacques Barzun (who sees it anticipating 20th-century psychiatry). According to The...
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