- Author
- Kernan, Alvin
- Publisher
- Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
- ISBN
- 300075898
- Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Shifting Educational Plates
ch. 1 Theater and Reality in Greenwich Village: Columbia, 1946
ch. 2 The Other End of the Log: Williams College, 1946-1949
ch. 3 Chatter About Shelley: Oxford, 1949-1951
ch. 4 See My George Gascoigne: Yale Graduate School, 1951-1954
ch. 5 Keeping Them Quiet: Yale, 1954-1960
ch. 6 The Two Cultures, Science and Literature
ch. 7 Publish or Perish: Tenure at Yale, 1960-1964
ch. 8 Goodbye, Boola Boola: Yale Administration, 1964-1970
ch. 9 When Do We Want It? Now! The Bobby Seale Trial, New Haven, 1970
ch. 10 Question All Authority: The Breakdown of Meaning and Language, Yale, 1970-1973
ch. 11 A Long Walk After Lunch: Princeton and the Later 1970s
ch. 12 The New Technology Calls All in Doubt: Television, Books, Libraries, Computers
ch. 13 No Obligation to Be Right, Only to Be Interesting: Teaching as Power and Politics, Princeton, the 1980s
ch. 14 The Break Between Generations, Retirement
Epilogue: The Dogs Bark, the Caravan Passes On
Index
In this candid and delightful memoir, Alvin Kernan recalls his life as a student, professor, provost, and dean during turbulent decades of change in the hallowed halls of Columbia, Williams, Oxford, Yale, and Princeton. His vividly remembered account is a unique personal story and more--it is also a history of what has been won, and lost, in the culture wars of the second half of the twentieth century. (From the Publisher)