Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education - Softcover

Kimball, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060920491 ISBN 13: 9780060920494

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1991

Synopsis

Kimball takes educators and institutions to task for what he sees as their complicity in today's educational disarray and their desire to expand the canon of literature to include a wider cultural array

About this title

About the Author:

Roger Kimball is managing editor of the New Criterion and an art critic for the London Spectator. His other books include Lives of the Mind, Experiments Against Reality, and The Long March. He lives in South Norwalk, Connecticut.

Review:

A stinging account...provokes constant reflection and occasional laughter. (Roger Shattuck, author of The Banquet Years )

A bravado performance of critical journalism...vivid, amusing, dismaying. (Robert Alter Newsday )

All persons serious about education should see it. (Allan Bloom, author of The Closing of the American Mind )

A withering critique. (Jonathan Yardley Washington Post Book World )

Mr. Kimball names his enemies precisely...this book will breed fistfights. (The New York Times )

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0060920491
• ISBN 13: 9780060920494
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222