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Ruminating on that comment, Bradley writes, “It was one thing to confront a scholar face-to-face, but this rumor felt deliberately planted in the press, meant to be spread behind the scenes, without accountability. The new president was obviously versed in the ways of Washington. What did that bode for Harvard...
...Bradley writes that Summers flew to Gates’ home in Martha’s Vineyard in August 2001 to convince the treasured scholar to remain at Harvard...
...Both men had grievances,” writes Bradley. “Summers had heard through the grapevine that Gates had repeatedly called him ‘an asshole,’ and he asked him to stop....Gates responded that asshole wasn’t a word he would use. He would have called Summers a ‘motherfucker,’ and, yes, he probably had. So what...
...Bradley, a former editor of George magazine who earned his master’s degree in American history from Harvard in 1990, steers clear of any overarching theses in assessing Summers’ tenure. But his narrative paints a largely negative portrait of the president. One unnamed administrator is quoted as saying, “I’ve never been in a place with the combination of low morale and bunker mentality that now exists at Harvard...
...lengthy passage on Summers’ “social peccadilloes,” Bradley recounts several tales of the president’s poor table manners, brusque demeanor, and “bizarre habit of falling asleep in public...