In this collection of essays, based on addresses given in the late '70s and '80s to Yale students, the emphasis is on academic mission, on what Giamatti terms ``civility.'' ``Eloquent in support of the values of a liberal education, these essays bespeak the product of such formation, a man at ease with the cultural flow of past and present,'' stated PW. (May)
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In this collection of addresses, the former president of Yale (now president of baseball's National League and slated to be baseball commissioner) proposes a resolutely old-fashioned view of the university and its mission. He defends pluralism and argues for the primacy of liberal education in the American university. For Giamatti, the truest and best education is an education in ideas and values, learned for themselves, without expectation of gain. To realize its purpose, the university must be ``free . . . from the need to achieve short-term results.'' Giamatti's is a salutary antidote to the fashionable pessimism of Bloom, Hirsch, Bennett, et al., which seems to dominate the thinking of higher education today. He is, as always, an engaging writer. David Keymer, Coll. of Technology, Utica
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