PRIVILEGE
HARVARD AND THE EDUCATION OF THE RULING CLASS
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Word Count
76,000 words, Guess
Page Count
304 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8367909M
- ISBN-139781401301125
- ISBN-101401301126
- OCLC Control Number55487365
- OCLC Control Numberprivilegeharvard0000dout
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2004052367
- LibraryThing3642
- Goodreads545975
Classifications
- LCCLD2160 .D68 2005
Description
Douthat arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1998 carrying an idealized vision of Ivy League life. Instead, he found himself in a school rife with elitism and moneyed excess, an incubator for the grasping and ambitious, a college seduced by the religion of success. What Harvard taught him was not what he had gone there to learn: he was immersed in the culture of America's ever-swelling ruling class--a culture of privilege, of ambition and entitlement, in which a network of elite schools are viewed by students, parents, administrators, and professors more as stepping-stones to high salaries and coveted social networks than as institutions of academic excellence. This book is both a pointed social critique of this country's most esteemed institutions, and an exploration of issues such as affirmative action, grade inflation, political correctness, and curriculum reform.--From publisher description.
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