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Getman presents these issues through relevant, often humorous anecdotes, using his own and others experiences in coping with the constantly changing academic landscape.</p><p>Written from a liberal perspective, the book offers another side of the story told in such works as Allan Blooms <em>The Closing of the American Mind</em> and Roger Kimballs <em>Tenured Radicals</em>.</p>...(*_*)9780292786509_<p>"I began this book to articulate my sense of disappointment and alienation from the status I had fought so hard to achieve." A remarkable admission from an alumnus of Harvard Law School who has held tenured professorships in the law schools of Yale and Stanford and has taught in the law schools of Harvard and Chicago.</p><p>In this personal reflection on the status of higher education, Julius Getman probes the tensions between status and meaning, elitism and egalitarianism, that challenge the academy and academics today. 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Getman presents these issues through relevant, often humorous anecdotes, using his own and others experiences in coping with the constantly changing academic landscape.</p><p>Written from a liberal perspective, the book offers another side of the story told in such works as Allan Blooms <em>The Closing of the American Mind</em> and Roger Kimballs <em>Tenured Radicals</em>.</p>...9780292786509_University of Texas Presslibro_electonico_ed4b53e5-2bfd-324f-bab6-bfea79da5667_9780292786509;9780292786509_9780292786509Julius GetmanInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/utexaspress-epub-4e67803a-2f7b-47a5-a467-2f0711d7c721.epub2010-07-22T00:00:00+00:00University of Texas Press