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Imposters in the Temple: American Intellectuals Are Destroying Our Universities and Cheating Our Students of Their Future
by ANDERSON, Martin
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0671709151
- ISBN 13
- 9780671709150
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine with gilt lettering and blue paper over boards, dust jacket. 255pp. Fine/near fine. A superb, tight first edition of this sharp critique of university administrators, faculty and trustees and the many ways in which they're letting down our ever-brighter students. Handsomely inscribed and signed by the author in black fineline on front flyleaf: "For Robert H. Malott -- / Someone who knows / the temple well -- / With best regards / Martin Anderson / January 4, 1993." Anderson (1936-2015) was a noted economist, policy analyst, author and advisor to President Reagan, while Robert Malott (1926-2018) was a noted Chicago businessman, CEO of FMC Corporation, Republican politico and philanthropist -- and his father the well-known academic administrator Deane W. Malott (1898-1996), educator who served as assistant dean at Harvard Business School, chancellor of University of Kansas and president of Cornell University.
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- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44344
- Title
- Imposters in the Temple: American Intellectuals Are Destroying Our Universities and Cheating Our Students of Their Future
- Author
- ANDERSON, Martin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0671709151
- ISBN 13
- 9780671709150
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Education;
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