- Education, higher, united states, Universities and colleges, united states, Elite (social sciences), Critical thinking
This book is a groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation's top schools should be -- but aren't -- providing: "The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those sheep'), pushy parents, and admissions mayhem" (People).
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and resolved.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- William Deresiewicz
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 245
- Publisher
- Free Press, Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781476702711
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