The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses / What's College for? the Struggle to Define American Higher Education / the Pleasures of Academe: A Celebration and Defense of Higher Education

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The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses

Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate. New York: Free Press, 1998, 414 pp., $27.50

What's College For? The Struggle to Define American Higher Education

Zachary Karabell. New York: Basic Books, 1998, 288 pp., $24.00

The Pleasures of Academe: A Celebration and Defense of Higher Education

James Axtell. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1998, 292 pp., $35.00

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THOSE who held a mirror to academic life were largely novelists. There are dozens of favorites, among them Mary McCarthy chronicling how the Cold War convulsed college life, …