Memoirs of an Obscure Professor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memoirs of an Obscure Professor write by Paul F. Boller. This book was released on 2013-05-31. Memoirs of an Obscure Professor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the heyday of McCarthyism, the Chicago Tribune, offended by something he had written, contemptuously dismissed Paul Boller as "an obscure professor" - he was then teaching at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Some forty-five years later, reflecting on the incident, Boller wrote an essay on what it was like to be an obscure professor at one of America's less publicized campuses in a conservative community during the late 1950s and early 1960s. That essay became the foundation for this collection of autobiographical selections reflecting the interests and pursuits of a man who gained national recognition, both inside the academic community and beyond, but still values his obscurity. Whether it is a study of the much-maligned Calvin Coolidge or an account of his Navy service as a translator of Japanese during World War II, Boller brings to his writing a fresh approach and a lively and wry wit.
Memoirs of an Obscure Professor and Other Essays
Memoirs of an Obscure Professor and Other Essays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memoirs of an Obscure Professor and Other Essays write by Paul F. Boller. This book was released on 1992-01-01. Memoirs of an Obscure Professor and Other Essays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Captain Professor
Captain Professor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Captain Professor write by Michael Howard. This book was released on 2006-08-26. Captain Professor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Awarded the Military Cross in the Second World War, the author recounts how between battles he befriended the young film director Franco Zefirelli. His account of beating the Germans out of Italy with Bishop Simon Phipps and the ballet critic Richard Buckle is hilarious. This memoir gives insight into the history of Britain in the post war years.
The Unexpected Professor
The Unexpected Professor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Unexpected Professor write by John Carey. This book was released on 2014-03-18. The Unexpected Professor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected, age 40, to Oxford's oldest English Literature professorship. He frankly portrays the snobberies and rituals of 1950s Oxford, but also his inspiring meetings with writers and poets - Auden, Graves, Larkin, Heaney - and his forty-year stint as a lead book-reviewer for the Sunday Times. This is a book about the joys of reading - in effect, an informal introduction to the great works of English literature. But it is also about war and family, and how an unexpected background can give you the insight and the courage to say the unexpected thing.
Teacher Man
Teacher Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teacher Man write by Frank McCourt. This book was released on 2005-11-15. Teacher Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author describes his coming of age as a teacher, storyteller, and writer, a personal journey during which he spent fifteen years finding his voice in the classroom, and came to terms with the undervalued importance of teaching.
