Appointment Denied

ISBN-13: 9781573927888 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 233 str.

Thom Weidlich

Opis

In the spring of 1940 the board of the City College of New York appointed the renowned philosopher Bertrand Russell to teach. With the appointment of this most celebrated of scholars, the board had intended to boost the school's image. Instead it found itself suddenly embroiled in a controversy involving the city's conservative Episcopal bishop and charges that it was encouraging radical and communist views at the college. Journalist Thom Weidlich masterfully reconstructs this major political imbroglio, which not only captured the attention of New Yorkers but very quickly received national coverage as a cause celebre. This 1940s' clash between an independent thinker and the self-appointed guardians of public morality retains its relevance in light of today's cultural debates and arguments over standards of decency and political correctness.