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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Verso Books
Publication date
May 1, 1994
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780860916727
ISBN-10
0860916723
Dimensions
1 by 5.50 by 9 in.
Weight
1.20 lbs.
Original list price
$20.00
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: âIt is frightening to think the [Jon Wiener] teaches history at a university ... ââJacques Derrida
âWiener takes the modern university as his beat, and covers it like a police reporter ... Wienerâs mean streets are the think tank, the scholarly symposium, and the faculty lounge. And when heâs had enough of this academic low life, he listens to Elvis, Springsteen and the Beatles. He even listens to Frank Sinatra.ââJohn Leonard
âIn this book, Jon Wiener demonstrates his great skill as guerrilla sharpshooter in the forty-year war that the National Security State has been conducting against the American people. These reports from the fieldâthe resistanceâilluminate Nixon and Watergate as never before, reveal in fascinating detail the turbulence within Academe, invoke pity if not awe for that unexpected victim of state, Frank Sinatra.ââGore Vidal
âWiener is good at spotting, and blasting, paranoid fantasy and incompetence in high (and low) places and his range of targets is impressively wide ... [his] surveys are lucid, trenchant and brief.ââObserver
âWiener takes the modern university as his beat, and covers it like a police reporter ... Wienerâs mean streets are the think tank, the scholarly symposium, and the faculty lounge. And when heâs had enough of this academic low life, he listens to Elvis, Springsteen and the Beatles. He even listens to Frank Sinatra.ââJohn Leonard
âIn this book, Jon Wiener demonstrates his great skill as guerrilla sharpshooter in the forty-year war that the National Security State has been conducting against the American people. These reports from the fieldâthe resistanceâilluminate Nixon and Watergate as never before, reveal in fascinating detail the turbulence within Academe, invoke pity if not awe for that unexpected victim of state, Frank Sinatra.ââGore Vidal
âWiener is good at spotting, and blasting, paranoid fantasy and incompetence in high (and low) places and his range of targets is impressively wide ... [his] surveys are lucid, trenchant and brief.ââObserver
Editions
Hardcover
from Verso Books (November 1, 1991)
9780860913566 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.75 lbs | List price $29.95
About: âIt is frightening to think the [Jon Wiener] teaches history at a university .
About: âIt is frightening to think the [Jon Wiener] teaches history at a university .
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Verso Books (May 1, 1994)
9780860916727 | details & prices | 5.50 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $20.00
About: âIt is frightening to think the [Jon Wiener] teaches history at a university .
About: âIt is frightening to think the [Jon Wiener] teaches history at a university .
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