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Tenured Radicals, Revised: How Politics has Corrupted our Higher Education - Softcover

Kimball, Roger

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9781566631952: Tenured Radicals, Revised: How Politics has Corrupted our Higher Education
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ISBN 10: 1566631955 ISBN 13: 9781566631952
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, 1998

Synopsis

In this substantially revised edition of his now-classic critique of contemporary academic life, Mr. Kimball shows how politics has corrupted our higher education. Mr. Kimball names his enemies precisely....This book will breed fistfights. -Roger Rosenblatt, New York Times Book Review. A withering critique. -Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World

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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 )

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Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1566631955
ISBN 13 
9781566631952
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
266
Rating
  • 3.59 out of 5 stars
    103 ratings by Goodreads