I had one guy at a gas station in New York say to me, "Hey, you look like that Hugh Grant. No offence".

Historian and educator                          

1927 Samplings and Chronicles: Being the Continuation of the Philolexian Society History, with Literary Selections From 1912 to 1927
1932 The French Race: Theories of Its Origins and Their Social and Political Implications
1937 Race: a Study in Modern Superstition - Revised, 1965 Race: A Study in Superstition.
1939 Of Human Freedom
1941 Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage
1943 Romanticism and the Modern Ego
1945 Teacher in America
1951 Pleasures of Music
1954 God's Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love, Spiced with a Few Harsh Words
1956 Music in American Life
1956 The Energies of Art
1959 The House of Intellect
1960 Lincoln the Literary Genius - first published in The Saturday Evening Post, 14 February 1959.
1961 The Delights of Detection
1961 Classic, Romantic, and Modern
1964 Science: The Glorious Entertainment
1967 What Man Has Built (- introductory booklet to the Great Ages of Man book series.
1968 The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going
1969 Berlioz and the Romantic Century (3d ed.)
1971 On Writing, Editing, and Publishing
1971 A Catalogue of Crime (with Wendell Hertig Taylor)
1974 Clio and the Doctors
1974 The Use and Abuse of Art
1975 Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers
1976 The Bibliophile of the Future: His Complaints about the Twentieth Century
1980 Three Talks at Northern Kentucky University
1982 Lincoln's Philosophic Vision
1982 Critical Questions
1983 A Stroll with William James
1986 A Word or Two Before You Go: Brief Essays on Language
1989 The Culture We Deserve: A Critique of Disenlightenment
1991 An Essay on French Verse for Readers of English Poetry
1991 Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning
2000 From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
2001 Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass
2002 A Jacques Barzun Reader
2002 What is a School? and Trim the College!
2003 The Modern Researcher (6th ed.) - with Henry F. Graff.
2004 Four More Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass: 2001-2004
Barzun has also translated a number of works of French literature into English, and edited writings by others, including the selected letters of Lord Byron and John Jay Chapman.
Works about or to Jacques Barzun:
1977 From Parnassus: Essays in honour of Jacque Barzun"- Edited by Dora B. Weiner & William R. Keylor                          

Mother Anna-Rose Barzun
Father Henri-Martin                          

Areas of expertise are far-ranging including "French and German literature, music, education, ghost stories, detective fiction, language, and etymology.