The Road Taken: An Academic Memoir

by Robert Friedman

In his remembrances of forty years in higher education, Friedman chronicles his moving from BA to PhD in the CUNY system and then on to what university administrators are fond of calling "positions of increasing responsibility." He describes the discordant and paradoxical position of doctoral students in English in Manhattan during the Koch, Dinkins, and Giuliani mayoralties, and then a series of academic jobs, with a focus on mentors and leaders...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CKQTHH2R
• ISBN13: 9798859681525
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"