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The University of Wisconsin v. 4; Renewal to Revolution, 1945-71 - A History (Hardcover, New)
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The University of Wisconsin v. 4; Renewal to Revolution, 1945-71 - A History (Hardcover, New)
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A great university in turbulent times From the deluge of World War
II vets on the GI bill through the 1960s radicalism that made
national headlines, the University of Wisconsin's history has been
a part of American history. Historians, as well as the University's
hundreds of thousands of alumni, faculty, staff, and students, will
welcome this fourth volume covering the University's recent past.
E. David Cronon and John W. Jenkins record in lively, readable
prose a period that began with the influx of returning war
veterans, more than doubling the University's enrollment in a
single year. They explore the dark McCarthy era of loyalty oaths
and blacklists during the 1950s and detail the actions of
University president E. B. Fred, who stood out among American
academic leaders for his commitment to principle and fair play. The
turbulent 1960s, which opened with students reporting on their
summertime Freedom Ride experiences throughout the American South
and ended with the Vietnam War-related bombing of Sterling Hall in
1970, are a record of how an era of idealism gave way to one
characterized by angry dissent and disorder, the rise of women's
liberation, flower power, black power, and student power. The
history concludes with the passage of legislation creating the
University of Wisconsin System of campuses in 1971--an action that
followed nearly three decades of experiments, compromises, and
political struggles involving several governors.
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