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The War of the Great Books (February 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 1)

<p><span class="deck">What seemed to be just another tempest in the teapot of academia has escalated into a matter of national values and politics. Who would have believed that the choice of which books Stanford University students must read would create so much tumult? And that the controversy goes back so far?</span></p>

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