| A Ph.D.'s Reverie: The Letters Contributor(s): Guittard, Charles Francis (Author) |
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ISBN: 1506908217 ISBN-13: 9781506908212 Publisher: First Edition Design Publishing OUR PRICE: $14.61 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2019 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Educators - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6" W x 9" (1.21 lbs) 412 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Frank Guittard, for years history department chair at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, was facing his personal Everest. His university president Samuel P. Brooks had strongly advised him to go back to school and earn his doctorate. So now at age fifty-six Frank was sweating blood at Stanford as the oldest student in the room and occasionally wondering why he had agreed to do it. Brooks, who was not well at the time, had his own ultimate challenge--defending against an unrelenting fundamentalist archenemy intent on exposing alleged evolutionists on Baylor's faculty, the battle requiring Brooks to adopt increasingly aggressive defensive strategies to protect academic freedom. These lively, colorful letters from the 1920s by an unassuming professor and his family are bound to entertain, resonate, and inform with their "everyman" and "you are there" feeling. Frank's family members went about their normal, everyday lives. Praise for A Ph.D.'s Reverie: The Letters "...eminently enjoyable..." - Kimberly R. Kellison "...illuminating and entertaining..." - Paul Emory Putz "...masterful, interwoven portrait..." - William F. Cooper "...artful and compelling..." - Ken Bain "...a completely unique form of biography..." - Charles W. McGarry
Keywords - Teacher, Ph.D., Baylor, Waco, Texas, Fundamentalists, Evolution, 1920s, Law, Environmentalism, Conservation, Roosevelt, Stanford |