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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reasons why each book came to mind," as the editors write in their introduction. Some big names, including professors Bernard Bailyn, Stephen Jay Gould, John Kenneth Galbraith and Stanley Hoffmann even took the time to respond. Alan Dershowitz is not represented, maybe because respondents were not allowed to list their own works...
...EDITORS write that they "were not looking for a contrived list of books that made a particular professor look good, but for sincere descriptions of books that truly mattered." They may not have been looking for any contrived lists, but they certainly found some...
Radcliffe President Horner, for instance, cannot resist listing a Dr. Seuss book, The Sneetches, and Other Stories among the books she's loved before. Professor Gould, after telling us how he played stickball as a street-kid in New York City, includes Lucky to Be a Yankee by Joe DiMaggio on his list of great books, following Darwin's The Origin of Species...
...professors were asked not to submit a list of "great books," the kind students might read in a class on "The History of Thought Since the Dawn of Time." Too many, though, took this as a cue to list the works that set them off on their academic specialties. Given the eminence of the contributors, that's not necessarily boring stuff. But how many people are really going to go out and pick up a copy of the book that Sidney Verba writes "taught me how to think like a social scientist...
...believe me, believe U.S. News and World Report. Bok consistently ranks among the most respected and influential Americans in the magazine's annual survey, and is always the educator highest on the list...