6.2 /10 1 Votes
Country United States Publication date May 2009 Originally published May 2009 Genre Memoir | 3.1/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (Hardback Publisher Doubleday | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pages 224 pp (hardback edition) ISBN 0-385-52128-6 (hardback edition) Similar Mission to America, Blood Will Out: The True Stor, The Unbinding, Up in the Air, Thumbsucker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever is a 2009 memoir by Walter Kirn. It describes his own trip through the American education system from rural Minnesota to Princeton University.
The author also wrote an earlier essay under the same title for The Atlantic.
The book was reviewed twice in the New York Times. The Times also listed it as a "notable book of 2009".
Other reviews appeared in the Washington Post and Commentary Magazine, and the book was recommended on Time Magazine's "Short List of Things to Do".
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