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Harvard Rules: Lawrence Summers and the Battle for the World's Most Powerful University — Sex, Ambition, and Elite Power at America's Institution

by Richard Bradley
$13.90
Harvard Rules: Lawrence Summers and the Battle for the World's Most Powerful University — Sex, Ambition, and Elite Power at America's Institution
Harvard Rules: Lawrence Summers and the Battle for the World's Most Powerful University — Sex, Ambition, and Elite Power at America's Institution

Ivy League power, ego, scandal, and upheaval

If you’re drawn to real-life institutional drama, this is a sharp, gossipy, surprisingly gripping look at Harvard at a moment of identity crisis. It reads like a backstage account of power clashing with idealism, with Lawrence Summers at the center of the storm. You come away feeling like elite universities are not just places of learning, but arenas where ambition, politics, and personality shape the future.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Harvard Rules: Lawrence Summers and the Battle for the World's Most Powerful University — Sex, Ambition, and Elite Power at America's Institution

by Richard Bradley
$13.90
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ISBN: 9780060568559
Authors: Richard Bradley
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date of Publication: 2005-11-22
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Politics, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: History, Political Science, Politics, Biography, Government, American History
Goodreads rating: 3.37
(rated by 43 readers)

Description

It is the richest, most influential, most powerful university in the world, but at the beginning of 2001 Harvard was in crisis. Students complained that a Harvard education had grown mediocre. Professors charged that the university cared more about money than learning. Harvard may have possessed a $19 billion endowment, but did it have its soul? The board knew they had to act. And so they tapped Lawrence Summers, the former U.S. Treasury secretary and renowned economist, to lead the institution. Although famously brilliant, Summers was a high-stakes gamble. In the 1990s he had helped shape American policy to stabilize the global economy, quietly becoming one of the world's most powerful figures. But while many admired Summers, his critics called him elitist, imperialist, and arrogant. Summers's leadership would place Harvard in upheaval, raising questions about what the university stands for and where it is headed. Not just the future of Harvard, but how its students would see the world and lead it. Written in defiance of the university's official opposition, Harvard Rules uncovers what goes on behind Harvard's storied walls—the politics, sex, ambition, infighting, and intrigue that run within the world's most important university.
 

Ivy League power, ego, scandal, and upheaval

If you’re drawn to real-life institutional drama, this is a sharp, gossipy, surprisingly gripping look at Harvard at a moment of identity crisis. It reads like a backstage account of power clashing with idealism, with Lawrence Summers at the center of the storm. You come away feeling like elite universities are not just places of learning, but arenas where ambition, politics, and personality shape the future.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.