The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going

When it was published in 1968, a year noted for historic student protests on campuses across the country, *The American University* spoke in Jacques Barzun's characteristically wise and lucid voice about what colleges and universities were really meant to do-and how they actually worked. Drawing on a lifetime of extraordinary accomplishment as a teacher, administrator, and scholar, Barzun here describes the immense demands placed on the university by its competing constituencies-students, faculty, administrators, alumni, trustees, and the political world around it all. "American higher education is fortunate to have had a scholar and intellectual of Jacques Barzun's stature give so many years of service to the daily bread-and-butter details of running a great university and then share his reflections with us in a literate, humane, and engaging book."-Charles Donovan, *America*