The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America [SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Horowitz, David

Published by Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C., 2006

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As new condition black boards with silver spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Praise for The Professors; Introduction: Trials of the Intellect in the Post-Modern Academy; Notes and Index. Signed, inscribed and dated (4/1/06) by the author with black pen on the blank first free front endpaper. 'This is the story of almost any campus in America. Parents. don't realize how truly anti-middle class and anti-American they can be." - Congressman Jack Kingston. "David Horowitz's book should be read by every college administrator and every scholar who is concerned about the abuse of university classrooms and the debasement of academic standards by faculty activists." - Candace de Russy, trustee, State University of New York. "Academics on the Left like to pat themselves on the back for daring to 'speak truth to power.' David Horowitz's The Professors speaks some uncomfortable truths to them -- to those who run American higher education today. They will hate this scathing critique, but will be hard-pressed to answer his charges." - Professors Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom, Harvard University. "Horowitz does a masterful job of proving how partisan activists are masquerading as professional educators and documenting the damage they are doing to the American academy." - State Representative Gibson C. Armstrong. ". a thoroughly enjoyable and useful guide to the worst of the worst in the hallowed halls of academia." - Laura Ingraham. "David Horowitz is sounding a clarion call . Americans should listen." - Representative Jerry Lewis, Chair, House Appropriations Committee. "The Professors profiled in this volume are drawn from public and private universities, from small institutions and large ones, and from schools that are both secular and religious. Among them are individuals prominent in their institutions and at the forefront of their professions. They are the authors of books widely used as texts in their fields. They have been funded by the prestigious foundations that support academic work and have been awarded the highest professional honors in their fields. They are department chairmen and directors of academic institutes and programs, and the heads of large professional associations. In a word, they are representative figures, widely influential in the academic world. The profiles in this volume reveal several disturbing patterns of university life. These include promotion far beyond academic achievement; the overt introduction of political agendas into the classroom; the abandonment of any pretense of academic discipline or scholarly inquiry; the teaching of subjects outside one's professional qualificaitons and expertise in order to conduct political propaganda; and the making of racist and ethnically disparaging remarks in public without eliciting reaction by universty administrations if those remarks are directed at unprotected groups, such as whites, Christians, and Jews. Not all of the professors depicted in this volume hold views as extreme as the views of Colorado University professor Ward Churchill, who describe the victims of 9/11 as "little Eichmanns." But a disturbing number do. All of them appear to believe that an institution of higher learning is an extension of the political arena, and that scholarly standards can be sacrificed for political ends; others are frank apologists for terrorist agendas. The problems revealed in this text -- the explicit introduction of political agendas into the classroom, the lack of professionalism in conduct, and the decline in professional standards -- appear to be increasingly widespread throughout the academic profession and at virtually every type of institution of higher learning. This ought to trouble every educator who is concerned about the quality of higher education and every American who cares about the country's future." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Seller Inventory # 006482

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous ...

Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C.

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition