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Whitman: Why did he do it?

2004 Texas Book Festival

New York Times Editorial

University of Louisiana-Lafayette Outstanding Alum

Essay: If Your Dreams Come True Are You Prepared For Success

Essay: The Burdens of Writing History

Scheduled appearances

2003 Texas Book Festival

Read an excerpt

Read an excerpt

Reviews

1999 Texas Book Festival

The many faces of Kenneth Allen McDuff

March 5, 2000




November 9, 2007

"College Admissions as Conspiracy Theory"

BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY

Color and Money: How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War Over College Affirmative Action by Peter Schmidt (Palgrave MacMillan, 2007)

The Conditions for Admission: Access, Equity, and the Social Contract of Public Universities by John Aubrey Douglass (Stanford University Press, 2007)

The Power of Privilege: Yale and America's Elite Colleges by Joseph A. Soares (Stanford University Press, 2007)

Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education By Peter Sacks (University of California Press, 2007)


 

 

April 16, 2000


 

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