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Allan Bloom was an American philosopher, classicist, and academician.
* He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1930.
* He studied at the University of Chicago, where he was a student of Leo Strauss.
* He taught at Cornell University, the University of Toronto, Tel Aviv University, Yale University, and the École normale supérieure.
* He is best known for his book The Closing of the American Mind, which was published in 1987.
* The book was a critical bestseller that argued that American universities had abandoned the study of the Western classics in favor of a focus on social justice and multiculturalism.
* Bloom died of prostate cancer in 1992.
* He is considered one of the most influential American philosophers of the 20th century.