Tulane is the story of a southern school striving for national recognition in the post-World War II era of American research universities. Clarence L. Mohr and Joseph E. Gordon present a candid, in-depth treatment of the 150-year-old New Orleans institution during this transformative period, when it grappled with such pervasive issues as federal and private funding; academic freedom; an enrollment surge set in motion by the GI Bill and sustained by the postwar "baby boom"; the cold war; desegregation; the antiwar, civil rights, and student-power movements; expanding intercollegiate athletics;...