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Know Your Enemy: Unraveling Allan Bloom and Saul Bellow  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ June 21, 2021

A deep-dive into Ravelstein, Saul Bellow’s roman à clef about the Straussian political philosopher Allan Bloom, who achieved late-in-life wealth and fame after publishing his controversial best-seller, The Closing of the American Mind.



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