Name: A Ph.D.'s Reverie: The Letters
SKU: 56535883
Author: Guittard, Charles Francis
ISBN: 9781506908212

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Charles Francis Guittard

Editorial

First Edition Design Publishing

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

412

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x2.1 cm

Peso

0.55 kg.

ISBN13

9781506908212

Categorías

Biografía: histórica, política y militar
Memorias
Educación

A Ph.D.'s Reverie: The Letters

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Reseña del libro "A Ph.D.'s Reverie: The Letters"

Frank Guittard, for years history department chair at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, was facing his personal Everest. His university president Samuel P. Brooks had strongly advised him to go back to school and earn his doctorate. So now at age fifty-six Frank was sweating blood at Stanford as the oldest student in the room and occasionally wondering why he had agreed to do it. Brooks, who was not well at the time, had his own ultimate challenge--defending against an unrelenting fundamentalist archenemy intent on exposing alleged evolutionists on Baylor's faculty, the battle requiring Brooks to adopt increasingly aggressive defensive strategies to protect academic freedom. These lively, colorful letters from the 1920s by an unassuming professor and his family are bound to entertain, resonate, and inform with their "everyman" and "you are there" feeling. Frank's family members went about their normal, everyday lives.Praise for A Ph.D.'s Reverie: The Letters "...eminently enjoyable..." - Kimberly R. Kellison "...illuminating and entertaining..." - Paul Emory Putz"...masterful, interwoven portrait..." - William F. Cooper"...artful and compelling..." - Ken Bain"...a completely unique form of biography..." - Charles W. McGarry Keywords - Teacher, Ph.D., Baylor, Waco, Texas, Fundamentalists, Evolution, 1920s, Law, Environmentalism, Conservation, Roosevelt, Stanford