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In Lumine Tuo
 SOCIAL
CRITIC: Andrew Delbanco, Julian Clarence Levi Professor in
the Humanities, was named "America's Best Social Critic" by
Time in its September 17 issue. Time's John Cloud
wrote, "Delbanco's contribution … comes with every student he
inspires. His model would appear to be Emerson, who, 'like every
great teacher,' as Delbanco once wrote, was in the business of
trying to 'get the soul out of bed, out of her deep habitual
sleep.' Delbanco is doing his part to jostle her awake, too." Cloud
added, "Delbanco reads America and its literature so closely and so
well, finding so much meaning in our great books, even for 2001
— especially for 2001 — that he stands worthy of
recognition."
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Delbanco's work encompasses American history,
literature and religion. His books include Required Reading: Why
Our American Classics Matter Now (1997, Farrar, Straus &
Giroux), The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense
of Evil (1995, Farrar, Straus & Giroux), The Real
American Dream (1999, Harvard) and The Puritan
Ordeal (1989, Harvard), which won a Lionel Trilling Award. He
writes frequently on literary and cultural topics for The New
York Review of Books.
Delbanco also is a trustee of the PEN American
Center, the National Humanities Center and the Library of America.
Elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences
earlier this year, Delbanco currently is working on Melville's
World, which explores why the work of author Herman Melville
was dismissed in his
day but is celebrated now.
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