1st Edition

Teachers and Scholars A Memoir of Berkeley in Depression and War

By Robert Nisbet Copyright 1992
225 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

The University of California at Berkeley is today best known as a great research center and popularly remembered as a locus of campus unrest in the 1960s. This memoir by the eminent sociologist and historian of ideas Robert Nisbet views Berkeley from a different perspective. Teachers and Scholars is a fascinating picture of Berkeley as it was a half a century ago in its move to become the most... Read more
PrefacePrologue 1. Berkeley, 1932 2. Bohemian Berkeley 3. Revolutionary Berkeley 4. Color, Creed, and Gender 5. Coping with the Depression 6. The Decline of Honor 7. Sproul 8. Lecturing as an Art Form 9. On a Note of Applause10. Giants in the Hills11. Teggart12. Years with the Octopus13. The Faculty, Yes14. Berkeley Goes to War: The End of an EraIndex

Biography

Robert Nisbet