After the ivory tower falls : how college broke the American dream and blew up our politics -- and how to fix it /
Bunch presents a deeply researched look at the broken state of higher education in America. He traces the modern history of college in the United States, from the landmark GI Bill and the culture wars of the 60s and 70s, through the explosion in student loan debt that has fueled major social movemen...
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New York :
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2022].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: College like my grandma used to make
- Life during wartime in Knox County, Ohio
- When college in America almost became a public good
- Why the Kent State massacre raised your tuition
- Yuppies, dittoheads, and a "big sort" : college and the culture wars
- The "whole college thing" awkwardly enters the 2020s
- Gap year. The Quad: The four people you meet in today's America
- A college debt crisis, Occupy Wall Street, and the rise of a new new Left
- From resentment of college to America's rejection of knowledge
- The soul of a new Truman Commission
- A bloodless war to save America's youth.