"This deftly woven portrait of Brewster and his close friends . . . is among the most revealing books ever written about the liberal establishment . . . Kabaservice is [a] thorough researcher and [a] comprehensive storyteller." -- The Atlantic Monthly Yale's Kingman Brewster was the only university president to appear on the covers of Time and Newsweek and the last campus leader to become a truly national figure. He was also the center of the liberal...
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Although he is almost forgotten today, Kingman Brewster who was the president of Yale from 1963-1977 was in fact an important figure in recent American history. One reason for this was the fact that he ran Yale in such a way that the university almost completely escaped the tumult that wracked other campuses during the Vietnam War. Another reason is that he revamped the admissons policy at yale so that poorly achieving students...
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Many of us who came of age in the 1980s and '90s forget that America used to be a much more liberal place, and that there was a time in recent history when Republicans aligned themselves with issues like civil rights, meritocracy, affirmative action, and the problems of the inner city. We forget -- or never realized -- that in the '60s and '70s there existed a significant faction within the Republican party known as "the liberal...
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