Bob Pepperman Taylor is the Elliott A. Brown Green and Gold Professor of Law, Politics, and Political Behavior at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Lessons from "Walden": Thoreau and the Crisis of American Democracy, which was named the winner of the American Political Science Association section award for the best book of 2020 in American political thought.

"Bob Pepperman Taylor provides a thoughtful commentary that is timely and provocative as American higher education faces reconsideration, including external pressures to explain and even justify its missions and offerings within the framework of American society, economics, and political systems of belief and action." —John R. Thelin, author of A History of American Higher Education "At a time when liberal education has been subject to critique both from within and outside the academy, this book is a serious and careful defense of the merits of teaching and studying the liberal arts." —Susan McWilliams Barndt, author of The American Road Trip and American Political Thought

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Liberal Education and the American Tradition2. Action3. Virtue4. DelightConclusionBibliography

Bob Pepperman Taylor is the Elliott A. Brown Green and Gold Professor of Law, Politics, and Political Behavior at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Lessons from "Walden": Thoreau and the Crisis of American Democracy, which was named the winner of the American Political Science Association section award for the best book of 2020 in American political thought.

"Bob Pepperman Taylor provides a thoughtful commentary that is timely and provocative as American higher education faces reconsideration, including external pressures to explain and even justify its missions and offerings within the framework of American society, economics, and political systems of belief and action." —John R. Thelin, author of A History of American Higher Education "At a time when liberal education has been subject to critique both from within and outside the academy, this book is a serious and careful defense of the merits of teaching and studying the liberal arts." —Susan McWilliams Barndt, author of The American Road Trip and American Political Thought

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Liberal Education and the American Tradition2. Action3. Virtue4. DelightConclusionBibliography

Bob Pepperman Taylor is the Elliott A. Brown Green and Gold Professor of Law, Politics, and Political Behavior at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Lessons from "Walden": Thoreau and the Crisis of American Democracy, which was named the winner of the American Political Science Association section award for the best book of 2020 in American political thought.

"Bob Pepperman Taylor provides a thoughtful commentary that is timely and provocative as American higher education faces reconsideration, including external pressures to explain and even justify its missions and offerings within the framework of American society, economics, and political systems of belief and action." —John R. Thelin, author of A History of American Higher Education "At a time when liberal education has been subject to critique both from within and outside the academy, this book is a serious and careful defense of the merits of teaching and studying the liberal arts." —Susan McWilliams Barndt, author of The American Road Trip and American Political Thought

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Liberal Education and the American Tradition2. Action3. Virtue4. DelightConclusionBibliography