| Here is the American campus, not as it hasbeen thought to be, but as it has beenhidden from us all these years--passionate,comic, confused, a place of Machiavellianplots, millcnnarian dreams, and insistentmake-believe. It is the campus as a worldthe same world as that which exists off thecampus. John Burgess, who has seen Latin Amer-ican revolution at first hand, returns to hiscountry to be plunged into tile middle of arevolution, North American style. ThoughBurgess can t quite understand what theissues are, hc very quickly learns thatunderstanding the issues is not considereda necessity before taking sides. He himselfhas his side chosen for him. A leader of therevolution calls him a CIA agent, and hefinds himself a central, though reluctant,participant in events. Those who want to know what happenedon American campuses during these lastyears will learn from this book. It offers an easy way to learn. It is a comic novel,with the pace and atmosphere of a detective story and a surprise ending. Here, a distinguished teacher--one who is familiar to thousands of his fellows over the post-World War II decades; one who has visited campuses from coast to coast as Phi Beta Kappa lecturer--turns his hand to fiction in an examination of truth that brings to light some extraordinary observations. |
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