Accepting for Jacques Barzun, Marguerite Barzun. (Applause.) The 2010 National Humanities Medal to Jacques Barzun for his distinguished career as a scholar, educator, and public intellectual.

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In the millennium year of 2000 Jacques Barzun published his chronicle of ideas in the making of the West over the past five hundred years titled From Dawn To Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life.

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