One Damn Thing After Another: A Sort of Memoir

The title of this "sort of memoir" is borrowed from Mark Twain's observation that life is "just one damn thing after another." Its author--a professor who taught American diplomatic history and the history of the Cold War for nearly four decades--originally intended the book's readership to be limited to prospective grandchildren. But the stories within--about the vicissitudes of academic life at Oberlin, Yale, and a University of California start-up campus; student protests against the Vie...