Memoirs of an Obscure Professor and Other Essays
- ISBN-10
- 087565097X
- ISBN-13
- 9780875650975
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 257
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- TCU Press
- Author
- Paul F. Boller
Description
During the heyday of McCarthyism, the Chicago Tribune, offended by something he had written, contemptuously dismissed Paul Boller as "an obscure professor" - he was then teaching at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Some forty-five years later, reflecting on the incident, Boller wrote an essay on what it was like to be an obscure professor at one of America's less publicized campuses in a conservative community during the late 1950s and early 1960s. That essay became the foundation for this collection of autobiographical selections reflecting the interests and pursuits of a man who gained national recognition, both inside the academic community and beyond, but still values his obscurity. Whether it is a study of the much-maligned Calvin Coolidge or an account of his Navy service as a translator of Japanese during World War II, Boller brings to his writing a fresh approach and a lively and wry wit.
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