Professors and Their Politics - 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 Professors and Their Politics write by Neil Gross. This book was released on 2014-07-15. Professors and Their Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite assumptions in some quarters of widespread academic radicalism, professors are politically liberal but on the whole democratically tolerant and are focused more on the business of research and teaching than on trying to change the world. Professors and Their Politics tackles the assumption that universities are ivory towers of radicalism with the potential to corrupt conservative youth. Neil Gross and Solon Simmons gather the work of leading sociologists, historians, and other researchers interested in the relationship between politics and higher education to present evidence to the contrary. In eleven meaty chapters, contributors describe the political makeup of American academia today, consider the causes of its liberal tilt, discuss the college experience for politically conservative students, and delve into historical debates about professorial politics. Offering readable, rigorous analyses rather than polemics, Professors and Their Politics yields important new insights into the nature of higher education institutions while challenging dogmas of both the left and the right.
Professors and Their Politics
Professors and Their Politics - 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 Professors and Their Politics write by Neil Gross. This book was released on 2014-07-15. Professors and Their Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offering readable, rigorous analyses rather than polemics, Professors and Their Politics yields important new insights into the nature of higher education institutions while challenging dogmas of both the left and the right.
Passing on the Right
Passing on the Right - 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 Passing on the Right write by Jon A. Shields. This book was released on 2016. Passing on the Right available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Liberals represent a large majority of American faculty, especially in the social sciences and humanities. Does minority status affect the work of conservative scholars or the academy as a whole? In Passing on the Right, Dunn and Shields explore the actual experiences of conservative academics, examining how they navigate their sometimes hostile professional worlds. Offering a nuanced picture of this political minority, this book will engage academics and general readers on both sides of the political spectrum.
The Professor and the President
The Professor and the President - 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 Professor and the President write by Stephen Hess. This book was released on 2014-12-08. The Professor and the President available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What happens when a conservative president makes a liberal professor from the Ivy League his top urban affairs adviser? The president is Richard Nixon, the professor is Harvard's Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Of all the odd couples in American public life, they are probably the oddest. Add another Ivy League professor to the White House staff when Nixon appoints Columbia's Arthur Burns, a conservative economist, as domestic policy adviser. The year is 1969, and what follows behind closed doors is a passionate debate of conflicting ideologies and personalities. Who won? How? Why? Now nearly a half-century later, Stephen Hess, who was Nixon's biographer and Moynihan's deputy, recounts this fascinating story as if from his office in the West Wing. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003) described in the Almanac of American Politics as "the nation's best thinker among politicians since Lincoln and its best politician among thinkers since Jefferson", served in the administrations of four presidents, was ambassador to India, and U.S. representative to the United Nations, and was four times elected to the U.S. Senate from New York. Praise for the works of Stephen Hess Organzing the Presidency Any president would benefit from reading Mr. Hess's analysis and any reader will enjoy the elegance with which it is written and the author's wide knowledge and good sense. -The Economist The Presidential Campaign Hess brings not only first-rate credentials, but a cool, dispassionate perspective, an incisive analytical approach, and a willingness to stick his neck out in making judgments. -American Political Science Review From the Newswork Series It is not much in vogue to speak of things like the public trust, but thankfully Stephen Hess is old fashioned. He reminds us in this valuable and provocative book that journalism is a public trust, providing the basic information on which citizens in a democracy vote, or tune out. — Ken A
Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?
Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? - 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 Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? write by Neil Gross. This book was released on 2013-04-09. Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Neil Gross shows that the U.S. academy’s liberal reputation has exerted a self-selecting influence on young liberals, while deterring promising conservatives. His study sheds new light on both academic life and American politics, where the conservative movement was built in part around opposition to the “liberal elite” in higher education.
