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200 13$aAn improbable life $emy sixty years at Columbia and other adventures /$fMichael I. Sovern ; cover design by Catherine Casiliano
210  1$a[New York, New York] :$cA Columbia University Publication,$d2014.
210  4$dİ2014
215   $a1 online resource (325 p.)
300   $aIncludes index.
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327   $aTable of Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword by Walter F. Mondale; Foreword by Lee C. Bollinger; 1. A Shared Story; 2. Riot; 3. Rebuilding; 4. Aftermath; 5. Condoms and Wrinkle Cream; 6. Becoming a Dean; 7. Litigating: Tuskegee and the Supreme Court; 8. Provost; 9. Building an Administration; 10. Beginnings; 12. Columbia College; 12. Columbia Law School; 13. Minnesota; 14. Coming Home; 15. Publishing and Moonlighting; 16. Climbing Out of a Hole; 17. Ceremonies; 18. Doing the Right Thing: Coeducation, Charter Revision, and Columbia Football; 19. The Pulitzer Prizes
327   $a20. Reagan Versus Mondale 21. Disappointing My Peers: Divestiture and Earmarks; 22. City Corruption and Columbia Unrest; 23. A Sabbatical Leave and a Return to Celebrations; 24. Remembering Malcolm X and Working with the Community; 25. International Guests, Anniversaries, Dedications, and a New Campaign; 26. Closing a School; 27. Salman Rushdie at Risk; 28. Hail and Farewell; 29. The Last Year; 30. A Backward Glance; 31. There Is Life After a Presidency; 32. Shubert-a Great Gig; 33. Almost a Justice; 34. Sotheby's; 35. America's Challenge; 36. What Next?; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
330   $aColumbia University began the second half of the twentieth century in decline, bottoming out with the student riots of 1968. Yet by the close of the century, the institution had regained its stature as one of the greatest universities in the world.According to the New York Times, ?If any one person is responsible for Columbia's recovery, it is surely Michael Sovern." In this memoir, Sovern, who served as the university's president from 1980 to 1993, recounts his sixty-year involvement with the institution, as well as his experiences growing up poor in the South Bronx and attending
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