A Ph.D.’s Reverie: The Letters - Softcover

Guittard, Charles Francis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506908500 ISBN 13: 9781506908502

Publisher: First Edition Design Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Frank Guittard, for years history department chair at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, was  facing his personal Everest. His university president Samuel P. Brooks had strongly advised him to go back to school and earn his doctorate. So now at age fifty-six Frank was sweating blood at Stanford as the oldest student in the room and occasionally wondering why he had agreed to do it. Brooks, who was not well at the time, had his own ultimate challenge—defending against an unrelenting fundamentalist archenemy intent on exposing alleged evolutionists on Baylor’s faculty, the battle requiring Brooks to adopt increasingly aggressive defensive strategies to protect academic freedom. These lively, colorful letters from the 1920s by an unassuming professor and his family are bound to entertain, resonate, and inform  with their “everyman”  and “you are there” feeling. Frank’s family members went about their normal, everyday lives. 

Praise for A Ph.D.’s Reverie: The Letters

 
“…eminently enjoyable…” - Kimberly R. Kellison 
“…illuminating and entertaining…” - Paul Emory Putz 
“…masterful, interwoven portrait…” - William F. Cooper 
“…artful and compelling…” - Ken Bain 
“…a completely unique form of biography…” - Charles W. McGarry 
 

Edition details

• Publisher: First Edition Design Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1506908500
• ISBN 13: 9781506908502
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 412