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Lost in the Meritocracy
The Undereducation of an Overachiever
Taschenbuch von Walter Kirn
Sprache: Englisch

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A New York Times Notable Book
A Daily Beast Best Book of the Year
A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year

From elementary school on, Walter Kirn knew how to stay at the top of his class: He clapped erasers, memorized answer keys, and parroted his teachers' pet theories. But when he launched himself eastward to an Ivy League university, Kirn discovered that the temple of higher learning he had expected was instead just another arena for more gamesmanship, snobbery, and social climbing. In this whip-smart memoir of kissing-up, cramming, and competition, Lost in the Meritocracy reckons the costs of an educational system where the point is simply to keep accumulating points and never to look back-or within.
A New York Times Notable Book
A Daily Beast Best Book of the Year
A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year

From elementary school on, Walter Kirn knew how to stay at the top of his class: He clapped erasers, memorized answer keys, and parroted his teachers' pet theories. But when he launched himself eastward to an Ivy League university, Kirn discovered that the temple of higher learning he had expected was instead just another arena for more gamesmanship, snobbery, and social climbing. In this whip-smart memoir of kissing-up, cramming, and competition, Lost in the Meritocracy reckons the costs of an educational system where the point is simply to keep accumulating points and never to look back-or within.
Über den Autor
Walter Kirn is a regular reviewer for The New York Times Book Review, and his work appears in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Time, New York, GQ and Esquire. He is the author of six previous works of fiction: My Hard Bargain: Stories, She Needed Me, Thumbsucker, Up in the Air, Mission to America and The Unbinding. Kirn is a graduate of Princeton University and attended Oxford on a scholarship from the Keasby Foundation. He lives in Livingston, Montana.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780307279453
ISBN-10: 0307279456
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kirn, Walter
Hersteller: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Maße: 203 x 134 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Walter Kirn
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2010
Gewicht: 0,25 kg
Artikel-ID: 101365906
Über den Autor
Walter Kirn is a regular reviewer for The New York Times Book Review, and his work appears in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Time, New York, GQ and Esquire. He is the author of six previous works of fiction: My Hard Bargain: Stories, She Needed Me, Thumbsucker, Up in the Air, Mission to America and The Unbinding. Kirn is a graduate of Princeton University and attended Oxford on a scholarship from the Keasby Foundation. He lives in Livingston, Montana.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780307279453
ISBN-10: 0307279456
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kirn, Walter
Hersteller: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Maße: 203 x 134 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Walter Kirn
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2010
Gewicht: 0,25 kg
Artikel-ID: 101365906
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