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“phyllis keller”

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  • Making Harvard Modern

    The Rise of America's University

    by Morton Keller, Phyllis Keller ...
    Making Harvard Modern is a candid, richly detailed portrait of America's most prominent university from 1933 to the present: seven decades of dramatic change. Early twentieth century Harvard was the country's oldest and richest university, but not necessarily its outstanding one. By the century's end it was widely regarded as the nation's, and the world's, leading institution of higher education. ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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  • Social Justice Fallacies

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    **In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths that underpin the social justice movement“Light on rhetoric, seriously heavy on data, and accessible in style, there is a reason why Sowell has been described as ‘among the most brilliant thinkers in the world today’ by Harvard University’s Steven Pinker and an ‘American sage’ by the Wall Street ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Maverick

    A Biography of Thomas Sowell

    by Jason L Riley ...
    A “fascinating” and “rare” (National Review) biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America’s most influential conservative thinkersThomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written over thirty books, covering topics from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture. His bold and unsentimental ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • College

    What it Was, Is, and Should Be

    by Andrew Delbanco ...
    As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers--is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A History of American Higher Education

    by John R. Thelin ...
    The definitive history of American higher education—now up to date.Colleges and universities are among the most cherished—and controversial—institutions in the United States. In this updated edition of A History of American Higher Education, John R. Thelin offers welcome perspective on the triumphs and crises of this highly influential sector in American life.Exploring American higher education ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Howard Zinn's Southern Diary

    Sit-ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women's Student Activism

    by Robert Cohen ...
    The activist and author of A People's History of the United States records an in-depth and personal account of the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta.During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into the historic protests occurring across Atlanta. At the time, Howard Zinn was a history professor at Spelman and served ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Woman of Valor

    Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America

    by Ellen Chesler ...
    This illuminating biography of Margaret Sanger—the woman who fought for birth control in America—describes her childhood, her private life, her relationships with Emma Goldman and John Reed, her public role, and more.Margaret Sanger went to jail in 1917 for distributing contraceptives to immigrant women in a makeshift clinic in Brooklyn. She died a half-century later, just after the Supreme Court ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Historians in Trouble

    Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower

    by Jon Wiener ...
    Historians in Trouble is investigative journalist and historian Jon Wiener's "incisive and entertaining" (New Statesman, UK) account of several of the most notorious history scandals of the last few years.Focusing on a dozen key controversies ranging across the political spectrum and representing a wide array of charges, Wiener seeks to understand why some cases make the headlines and end careers, ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Campus Life

    by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz ...
    Every generation of college students, no matter how different from its predecessor, has been an enigma to faculty and administration, to parents, and to society in general. Watching today’s students “holding themselves in because they had to get A’s not only on tests but on deans’ reports and recommendations,” Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, author of the highly praised Alma Mater, began to ask, “What ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Personal Politics

    The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left

    by Sara Evans ...
    The women most crucial to the feminist movement that emerged in the 1960's arrived at their commitment and consciousness in response to the unexpected and often shattering experience of having their work minimized, even disregarded, by the men they considered to be their colleagues and fellow crusaders in the civil rights and radical New Left movements. On the basis of years of research, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Between Citizens and the State

    The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century

    by Christopher P. Loss ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The University of Chicago

    A History

    by John W. Boyer ...
    The essential history of one of the United States's most influential institutions of higher learning in the world.The University of Chicago has a powerful and distinct identity, and its name is synonymous with intellectual rigor. With more than 170,000 alumni living and working in more than 150 countries, its impact is far-reaching and long-lasting.In this indispensable volume, John W. Boyer, Dean ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus