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Confessions of a Spoilsport: My Life and Hard Times Fighting Sports Corruption at an Old Eastern University
William Dowling, Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature at Rutgers University, tells the story of the Rutgers 1000 group of alumni, faculty, staff, and students and their losing battle for the institution’s academic soul and intellectual integrity. In Confessions of a Spoilsport: My Life and Hard Times Fighting Sports Corruption at an Old Eastern University, Professor Dowling gives his first-hand account of the fight against commercialized college athletics at his university.
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Homeland
Mythology:
Biblical Narratives in American Culture
Though the Age of Enlightenment long ago theoretically resolved the question of how religious belief can coexist with rational understanding in human affairs, debates over the appropriate place for religion in American political life continue to rage today. In his new book Homeland Mythology, NYU Professor Christopher Collins argues that no modern American presidency has more successfully injected fundamentalist Christian theology into what was once a presumptively secular democracy than President George W. Bush’s administration.
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The
Art and Science of William Bartram
PA—In Charles Frazier’s 1997 National Book Award winning
novel Cold Mountain the hero, Inman, begins his quest through
the American south armed only with a pistol and a tattered copy
of William Bartram’s Travels. Bartram’s Travels continues to be renowned as an example of early-American
travel writing, as an important historical document of the American
South and its native peoples, and as an essential scientific documentation
of the region’s fl ora and fauna. The
Art and Science of William Bartram recounts Bartram’s
life and his famous
journey.
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