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Title: Not so deep
Review: Almost every book that Denby defends so wholeheartedly in this book is worth reading. Still, his exploration of the culture debates seems superficial. He is able to attend these classes and come out with basically the same opinions with which he left, having absorbed nothing of the justifiable rage of groups left out of the "core curriculum", smugly sure that the books he grew up with are the best that are out there. His dismissal of the liberal students' concern as "tragically mistaken" seems glib and self-satisfied, and the book is tainted by the bias of its author, whose purpose (to re-educate himself, to find himself) is defeated from the start by his closed-mindedness.
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