William C Dowling

Confessions of a Spoilsport

My Life and Hard Times Fighting Sports Corruption at an Old Eastern University

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the story of an English professor who, having seen the University of New Mexico sink academically in the period of a major basketball scandal, was galvanized into action when Rutgers joined the Big East. It is also the story of Rutgers students and alumni who set out against enormous odds to resist the decline of their university.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penn State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 143mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780271058795
• ISBN-10: 027105879X
• Artikelnr.: 37315150

Autorenporträt

William C. Dowling is University Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature at Rutgers University and the 2012 recipient of the Robert Maynard Hutchins Award for his contributions to the cause of integrity in intercollegiate athletics. Of the ten books he has published, the most recent include Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris: Medicine, Theology, and the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson, and The Senses of the Text: Intensional Semantics and Literary Theory. He has also written widely on college sports in such publications as The Chronicle of Higher Education and Academic Questions, and about challenges to the system of scholarly communication in the Journal of Scholarly Publishing.