The San Antonio Symphony will honor internationally acclaimed scholar and San Antonio resident Jacques Barzun with a free public concert of music by Barzun's favorite composer, Hector Berlioz, at 7 ...

More than eight years ago, I went to my mailbox in the newsroom of the San Antonio Express-News, found a letter addressed to me from Jacques Barzun and almost collapsed from the anticipated ...

There are few public intellectuals today — and even fewer who can claim the depth of thought and breadth of influence enjoyed by Jacques Barzun, the longtime Columbia scholar who died last week at 104 ...

"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules, and reality of the game." This oft-repeated quote by cultural historian Jacques Barzun has served as a mantra ...

Remembering Jacques Barzun, scholar & culture warrior. Born in France in 1907, Barzun had been a presence on the American intellectual and academic scene since the 1950s. From his perch at Columbia ...

Jacques Barzun, a pioneering cultural historian, reigning public intellectual and longtime Ivy League professor who became a best-selling author in his 90s with the acclaimed "From Dawn to Decadence," ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NONFICTION: INTELLECTUAL EXPLORATION Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind by Michael Murray (Frederic C. Beil) Just before World War I, Jacques Barzun — ...

Jacques Barzun, a pioneering cultural historian, reigning public intellectual and longtime Ivy League professor who became a best-selling author in his 90s with the acclaimed "From Dawn to Decadence," ...

Jacques Barzun, who at once celebrated and castigated Western civilization in his many works, has passed away at 104. Though long a New Yorker, Barzun had been living in San Antonio, where he died on ...

Jacques Barzun, a pioneering cultural historian, reigning public intellectual and longtime Ivy League professor who became a best-selling author in his 90s with the acclaimed “From Dawn to Decadence,” ...