10 1/2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said

by Peter Steiner and Charles Wheelan

Book Overview

The antidote to those cotton-candy platitudes that are all too familiar to anyone who's ever worn a mortarboard, Wheelan's 101 head-turning aphorisms--backed up by a PhD in public policy and extensive social science research--set the record straight. Readers everywhere agreed, turning a Dartmouth Class Day speech that had gone viral into a best-selling book.

Whether praising the time "wasted" in fraternity basements; mentioning that, frankly,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393074315
• ISBN13: 9780393074314
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.0"