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William Deresiewicz was an associate professor of English at Yale University until 2008 and is a widely published book critic. His reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, Bookforum, and The American Scholar. He was nominated for National Magazine awards in 2008 and 2009 and the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2010."

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Average rating: 3.76 · 782 ratings · 260 reviews · 6 distinct works

	A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter 3.77 avg rating — 762 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Perspecta 29 "Into the Fire": The Yale Architectural Journal 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998	My rating:
	Leadership: The West Point Lecture 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	The Death of Friendship 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	What the Ivy League Won't Teach You 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, Jay Parini (Introduction), William Deresiewicz (Afterword) 3.74 avg rating — 15,978 ratings — published 1895 — 202 editions	My rating:

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“But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.”
― William Deresiewicz

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“We have a crisis of leadership in America because our overwhelming power and wealth, earned under earlier generations of leaders, made us complacent, and for too long we have been training leaders who only know how to keep the routine going. Who can answer questions, but don’t know how to ask them. Who can fulfill goals, but don’t know how to set them. Who think about how to get things done, but not whether they’re worth doing in the first place. What we have now are the greatest technocrats the world has ever seen, people who have been trained to be incredibly good at one specific thing, but who have no interest in anything beyond their area of expertise. What we don’t have are leaders. What we don’t have, in other words, are thinkers. People who can think for themselves. People who can formulate a new direction: for the country, for a corporation or a college, for the Army—a new way of doing things, a new way of looking at things. People, in other words, with vision.”
― William Deresiewicz

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“...Novels--which, after all, are training grounds for responding to the world, imaginative sanctuaries in which to hone and test our ethical judgments and choices.”
― William Deresiewicz, A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter