Buy this book on-line Sperber, Murray : Beer and Circus : How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate EducationHenry Holt and Company, New York, 2000 ISBN 0805038647
FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition (stated). A highly illuminating, strong critique of America's colleges and universities, which the author contends have shifted their focus from educating undergraduate students, to high-profile professional sports, research, and postgraduate programs instead, cheating the undergrads and their families or sponsors out of massive tuition dollars while giving them a 'beer and circuses' so-called 'education' instead of the real thing. Author provides the modern history of 'higher education in the United States' and how this sorry situation has come about. Hardcover with dust jacket, contains notes, indexed, 322pp., d.j. shows one one-inch closed edgetear. A nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free Brodart plastic protector. Rare. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Near Fine Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Sperber, Murray : Beer and Circus : How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including rare books, atlases, collectables, out-of-print books and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |