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The Insiders' Journey - Pursuing the American Dream (Hardcover)
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The Insiders' Journey - Pursuing the American Dream (Hardcover)
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Sociologist Irving Krauss and Political Scientist Wilma Rule show
that academics are not cloistered in their ivory tower. In their
life-long journey as students and professors at major universities
and regional institutions they give a first hand account of their
universities' inner workings and their struggle for justice in
cases of gender discrimination, sexual harassment and wrongful
dismissal. Their odyssey begins as sweethearts at U.C. Berkeley and
goes on to their ten years in Hawaii, sixteen in Illinois and
retirement in a small mountain community in California's Sierra
Nevada mountains. Of greatly different origin-living from New
York's South Bronx and Wilma from Basin, Wyoming-they had similar
values and interests that made them sensitive to injustice. During
their 53 years of married life they also had major roles in
Congressional and community politics. As children of the Great
Depression of the 1930's Irving tells of occurrences in his working
class neighborhood that did not get into the history books and
Wilma relates events in her family that darken the lore of early
ranching. They had a zest for living and describe unusual
experiences in East Berlin and Egypt in their worldwide travel,
mostly to professional conferences. They are indebted to their
families' emphasis on education and stress how important the
availability of excellent and affordable schooling was for their
successful pursuit of the American Dream.
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