> Janet Maslin's NYT review of The Metaphysical Club
Maslin describes Menand's book as "a landmark work of scholarship and a popular history of profound, sweeping change."

> 2002 Pulitzer Prize
Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in History. View the entire list of winners.

> "The Marketplace of Ideas" by Louis Menand
Menand offers here a history of higher education since WWI - and examines the waxing and waning legitimacy granted to the Humanities during this period.