The following book review of the opening of American mind by Lawrence W. Levine is an analytical summary of the content of the material that is under the study. In a book review, any writer writes the book and the book reviewer acts as the researcher, reader, analyst and the reporter of the given written book later analyzes it. In this essay, the book Lawrence W. Levine is known as the opening of the American mind to explain. Lawrence W. Levine is a renown writer who is a professor at Berkeley university and he is specialized in history as a profession. Lawrence W. Levine has written a variety of books and in the opening of the American mind, Lawrence W. Levine has described how critics developed towards the higher education in America and these include people such as Allan Bloom. The critics have diverted from the facts that are related to the higher education in America and have turned it into a debate. Lawrence W. Levine states that change in the mode of teaching in the American higher education has majorly been influenced by the political standards in America. Lawrence W. Levine also states that critics of American higher education also emerged from the universities administrations who, for a long time, have been criticizing the western civilization which promotes the American higher education. Lawrence W. Levine also argues that the change in the mode of teaching in the history has not only been influenced by the declining political standards but also the cultural changes that are prevalent in America and also the demographic changes. Lawrence W. Levine has been a professor at the Berkley university for a long duration of time and he is well familiar with the history of the university and even about history and literature as a whole more than any other critic that may arise. He has witnessed how there has been an educational decline that has progressed from year to year since the time that the university was established. The other factor that contributed to the decline in education in America apart from the decline in political standards and changes in demography and culture is the argument over which subjects to include in the curriculum of the higher education in America. Some people who criticize the change in the educational curriculum in America defend their criticism by stating that they are not the first ones to criticize western civilization and changing the education curriculum but even before universities decided to change their educational curriculum, it had already been argued and criticized. Levine brings out the contrast between the challenges that were encountered in the past education systems and the present education systems which are under very high debate on what subjects to include in the American curriculum. This debate was so intense when the proposed academic curriculum in America proposed to withdraw some of the compulsory classic subjects that seemed to contain elements of barbarism to some people. This aspect was greatly protested against and especially by people like bloom who advocated for continuing to live in the past educational systems. Lawrence W. Levine states that the western civilization teaching started during the World War