Jacques Barzun R.I.P
Jacques Barzun, 30 Nov 1907 – 25 Oct 2012
Historian & Scholar dies at 104 (NYtimes)
The Achievement of Jacques Barzun (The First Things)
Cynthia Ozick – “the last of the thoroughgoing generalists,”
My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays or by looking at his pictures. We don’t need to fall all over ourselves with adjectives and epithets. Let’s play him more.
— Jacques Barzun, in an interview with John C. Tibbetts
Barzun 100 (a blog dedicted to Barzun)
William James – (blog fantasy)