Lost in the Meritocracy
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| Author | Walter Kirn |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | May 2009 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback |
| Pages | 224 pp (hardback edition) |
| ISBN | 0-385-52128-6 (hardback edition) |
Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever is a 2009 memoir by Walter Kirn. It describes his own trip through the American education system from rural Minnesota to Princeton University.[1]
The author also wrote an earlier essay under the same title for The Atlantic.[2]
The book was reviewed twice in The New York Times.[3][4] The Times also listed it as a "notable book of 2009".[5]
Other reviews appeared in The Washington Post[6] and Commentary Magazine,[7] and the book was recommended on Time Magazine's "Short List of Things to Do".[8]
References
- ^ Random House catalog
- ^ Atlantic, January-February 2005
- ^ New York Times Sunday Book Review, May 21, 2009
- ^ New York Times, May 17, 2009
- ^ New York Times Notable Books list
- ^ Washington Post, June 7, 2009
- ^ Commentary Magazine, June 2009 Archived 2009-06-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Time Magazine, Short list of things to do, May 29, 2009