From Animal House to the Academy

By Jeffrey J. Langan

Book Overview

From Animal House to the Academy follows a series of seminars to college freshmen, designed to help them understand themselves, their environment, and how to effectively flourish in the modern... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1436338336
• ISBN13: 9781436338332
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Xlibris
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Must-read for any student, parent, grandparent.

This book is a 5 Star must-read. The author provides twelve "seminars" about life for college students...the real lessons of life, of vocation, of virtue. Topics span from the specific, such as table manners, to the wide-ranging, such as dating, and then to the eternal with the virtues. Readers of all ages will benefit from this book because it is never too late to improve, to strive, to learn. With life-changing charts and exercises (and challenges!) throughout, the apex of the book is the "Mountain of Virtue" chart on page 134. That chart alone is well worth a thousand-times the price of the book. An experienced, learned Professor, the author mixes Sacred Scripture with the classics of philosophy and also history, sociology, politics, psychology, street-smarts, and large measures of wit and humor all to provide a valuable guide which deserves to be read and re-read time and again with great profit.