A young Ohio architect, Nathan Goldstein, testifies at a 1979
Congressional subcommittee hearing about his experiences with the
national examination required to obtain his license to practice his
profession. A retired professor of English, Walter Rubin, visits
Ellis Island searching for meaning in his memories of his arrival
there in the 1930's. In 2005, their stories come together in
GATEKEEPERS, a tale of academic and professional intrigue whose
parallels in the larger world echo in both their lives and in the
events of their times. Rubin inherits the diaries of his late
friend and neighbor, Harry Rosenberg, and finds himself fascinated
by hints of a conspiracy dating back some thirty years to Harrys
career at Ohio States School of Architecture, where one of Harrys
most promising students, Nathan Goldstein, had launched a study
that his profession had seen as a threat to its most integral
marketing practices and political influence. Forced to stop his
work, Nathan began to encounter one inexplicable failure after
another on licensing examinations, at appeals to state agencies,
even in his relations with his major advisor. More from necessity
than choice, Nathan becomes a champion for a cause soon seen as of
national interest and concern. Rubin, whose own background includes
acquaintance with more than one form of violence, learns how
important it is to distinguish justice from revenge. GATEKEEPERS, a
collaborative novel, alternates the stories of Nathan Goldstein and
Walter Rubin told through the eyes, emotions, and recollections of
the architect and the professor. Intended to inform and provoke as
well as to entertain, the story of Nathans persistence in his quest
for entrance to hischosen profession will appeal especially to
those readers still scarred by their experiences with standardized,
machine-scored, multiple-choice examinationson which so much and so
many of our lives depend.
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