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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren (Review)

Reviewed by Tim White

Mar 28, 2023
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New York: Touchstone, 1972 (revised edition)
426 pp. $14.99 (Kindle)

We must be more than a nation of functional literates. We must become a nation of truly competent readers, recognizing all that the word “competent” implies. Nothing less will satisfy the needs of the world that is coming. —Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

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