The author's account of teaching America's "underprepared" and of his personal journey from a Los Angeles ghetto to a major research university.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 255
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics), Penguin, Touchstone
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780029268216
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