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No equal in the world : an interpretation of the academic presidency / Joseph N. Crowley

Author
Crowley, Joseph N., 1933-2017
Published
Reno : University of Nevada Press, [1994]
Copyright Date
©1994
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 300 pages)
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Chapter One -- Inside an Enigma; Metaphors; Purpose and Prototypes; The Approach; Chapter Two -- The Lives of Presidents; Traditionalists and Reformers; Transition; The Titans; Challenges; Different Agendas; One More Titan; The Stuff of History; Chapter Three -- A Changing Office in a New Century; State Universities; Following in the Footsteps; The Other Presidents; Biography in the Modern Age; Words of Wisdom; Rise and Decline; Chapter Four -- From Great Men to Mediators; The View from the Office: Part I. and The Dissenters RespondThe View from the Office: Part II; Chapter Five -- A Profusion of Views; The Seeds of Transition; The Flood; Models and Typologies; The View from the Office: Part III; Chapter Six -- The President in Fiction; The Real Thing; Feet of Clay; Presidential Strategies: A Fictional Taxonomy; Issues; Art and Life; Chapter Seven -- Epilogue; Appendix One. Sources for the Metaphors and Other Descriptors Employed in Chapter One; Appendix Two. Presidents Discussed in Chapter Two; Appendix Three. Presidents Discussed in Chapter Three; Appendix Four. The Fictional Presidents; Notes.
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ISBN
0874174082 (electronic bk.)
9780874174083 (electronic bk.)
0874172373 (alk. paper)
9780874172379
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-290) and index.
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