Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever - Paperback

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Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever - Paperback

Name: Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever - Paperback
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by Walter Kirn

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by Walter Kirn (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 224

Dimensions: 0.66 x 8.02 x 5.28 IN

Publication Date: June 01, 2010

ISBN	9780307279453
Author	Walter Kirn
Publisher	Anchor Books
Genre	Biography and Education
Format	Paperback
Published	June 2010
Language	ENG- English
Pages	224
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print