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Gray-Rosendale, Laura, author.
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378.0092 23
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2013
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Garrett, Stephen A., 1939-
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959.3044 19
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1986
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Franklin, Cynthia G.
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378.00922 22
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2009
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Haslam, Gerald W.
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378.12092 23
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2011
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"One of the most gripping images from the 1960s captures the slight figure of Dr. S.I. Hayakawa scrambling onto a sound truck parked in front of San Francisco State College amid campus unrest. Hayakawa had hoped to use this soapbox to address the assembled demonstrators, but instead he ended up ripping out speaker wires and halting an illegal campus demonstration--or denying first-amendment rights to the crowd, depending on your perspective. Indeed, Hayakawa's entire life defies simplistic labels, and his ability to be categorized largely depends on personal perspective. This intimate and detailed biography draws on interviews with friends and family members, as well as Hayakawa's own papers and journals, to bring this controversial and fascinating figure to life. He was an enigma to colleagues as well as adversaries, a Republican senator who consistently bucked his party's ideals with his support of the women's movement, abortion rights, and even Ronald Reagan's search for a female running mate. The son of Japanese immigrants, born and raised in Canada before moving to the United States, Hayakawa emerges here as a complex and complicated figure. His blend of heritage, politics, artistic inclination, and intellectual achievement makes him quintessentially American"--
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Bunkers, Suzanne L.
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929.20893 20
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1996
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Bunkers, Suzanne L.
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929.20893 20
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1996
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Dennis, Lawrence J.
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370.92
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1992
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Baum, Richard, 1940-2012.
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951.05092 22
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2010
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Richard Baum shares anecdotes from his professional life as a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, discussing his experiences as a China watcher over the course of forty years.
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Goldblatt, Eli.
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302.2244 23
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2012
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In this engrossing memoir, poet and literacy scholar Eli Goldblatt shares the intimate ways reading and writing influenced the first thirty years of his life-in the classroom but mostly outside it. Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography traces Goldblatt's search for home and his growing recognition that only through his writing life can he fully contextualize the world he inhabits. Goldblatt connects his educational journey as a poet and a teacher to his conception of literacy, and assesses his intellectual, emotional, and political develop.
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Hull, Ronald Eugene, 1930-
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791.430232092
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2012
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Flynt, Wayne, 1940-
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976.1063
Publication Date
2011
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This historical memoir by the widely recognized scholar, Wayne Flynt, chronicles the inner workings of his academic career at Samford and Auburn Universities, as well as his many contributions to the general history of Alabama. Flynt has traveled the state and the South lecturing and teaching both lay and academic groups, calling on his detailed knowledge of both the history and power structures in Alabama to reveal uncomfortable truths wherever he finds them, whether in academic institutions that fall short of their stated missions, in government and industry leaders who seek and hold power.
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Letiche, John M., 1918-
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330.092 22
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2011
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The influential life of a leading Berkeley scholar who served as an adviser to the United Nations and American and African governments.
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