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The view from the front row of the academic follies.
Diary of a Dean
by Herbert I. London
Hamilton, 60 pp., $14.99
When I attended New York University during the late 1980s, reading about the school’s internal politics in the
Washington Square News, Gallatin Division Dean Herbert London registered in my undergraduate imagination as a real “no”-it-all: He was against everything—at least, judging by the headlines. Whenever the
WSN reported on a university senate vote, it trumpeted the tally as 77-1, with him the lone dissenter. In
Diary of a Dean, an episodic collection of autobiographical essays, London tells how he became a voice crying in the wilderness of liberal academia. At the same time, he depicts the larger story of “the dramatic shift that has occurred in this society over the last four decades,” particularly how “political considerations have entered the Academy as an ideological tsunami
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