# On Looking Into the Abyss

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- Authors: [Gertrude Himmelfarb](https://www.bookquiver.com/gertrude-himmelfarb)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7975-923-2
- Pages: 224
- Published: 1995-01-31
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In these provocative essays, one of our most distinguished historians looks into the abyss of the present. Himmelfarb exposes the intellectual and spiritual impoverishment of some of our most fashionable...