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Privilege - Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class (Paperback)
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Privilege - Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class (Paperback)
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Now in paperback, the penetrating critique of elite universities
and the culture of privilege they perpetuate Ross Gregory Douthat
arrived at Harvard University in the fall of 1998 carrying an
idealized vision of Ivy League life. But the Harvard of his dreams,
an institution fueled by intellectual curiosity and entrusted with
the keys to liberal education, never materialized. Instead, he
found himself in a school rife with elitism and moneyed excess, an
incubator for the grasping and ambitious, a college seduced by the
religion of success. So Douthat was educated at Harvard, but what
Harvard taught him was not what he had gone there to learn.
Instead, he was immersed in the culture of America's ever-swelling
ruling class--a culture of privilege, of ambition and entitlement,
in which a vast network of elite schools are viewed by students,
parents, administrators, and professors more as stepping-stones to
high salaries and coveted social networks than as institutions
entrusted with academic excellence.Privilege is a powerfully
rendered portrait of a young manhood, a pointed social critique of
this country's most esteemed institutions, and an exploration of
issues such as affirmative action, grade inflation, political
correctness, and curriculum reform.
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