Description: Further DetailsTitle: Seeking the North StarCondition: NewSubtitle: Selected SpeechesEAN: 9781567925074ISBN: 9781567925074Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher IncFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/14/2013Description: Here are speeches, essays, and articles from them man who turned Boston University into a major educational institution. John Silber speaks as an educator, parent, philosophical leader, and political observer and participant (Ahead in the polls, he probably would have been elected Governor of Massachusetts had he not run afoul of a beloved media personality. The famous incident is recounted in high style in Tom Wolfe’s foreword).He tackles issues including education at all levels, culture and the media, democracy and international affairs. Delivered from 1971 to 2012, the speeches offer his incisive reflections on the Vietnam War, Watergate, student activism of the seventies, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, developments in science and technology, the increasing power of the media, global corporations, and many other issues. His style is lively, crisp, and pointed, spiked with his acerbic wit and guided by an ongoing search for wisdom.Mr. Silber was a model of probity and integrity in both his private and his public life, an intellectual pessimist and a congenital optimist. Even as he transformed Boston University from a sleepy and fast-declining “streetcar college,” he spoke out on topical issues and principles on which our human fulfillment and national identity depended. Inspiring many and infuriating some, his was a life that mattered and his voice was one worth listening to.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 231mmItem Length: 162mmItem Width: 36mmAuthor: John SilberContributor: Tom Wolfe (Foreword by)Genre: BiographyRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Seeking the North Star
Title: Seeking the North Star
Subtitle: Selected Speeches
EAN: 9781567925074
ISBN: 9781567925074
Release Date: 11/14/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Tom Wolfe (Foreword by)
Book Title: Seeking the North Star : Selected Speeches
Number of Pages: 305 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Godine Publisher, David R.
Topic: Leadership, Speeches, United States / 20th Century, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Item Height: 1.4 in
Publication Year: 2013
Genre: Education, Literary Collections, History
Author: John Silber
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
