Rot, Riot, and Rebellion: Mr. Jefferson's Struggle to Save the University That Changed America
Language: English
Published by University of Virginia Press, Charlotesville, 2013
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182pp including notes, bibliography, and index. Very Good hardcover in a very good dust jacket. In Rot, Riot, and Rebellion, award-winning journalists Rex Bowman and Carlos Santos offer a dramatic re-creation of the university s early struggles. Political enemies, powerful religious leaders, and fundamentalist Christians fought Jefferson and worked to thwart his dream. Rich students, many from southern plantations, held a sense of honor and entitlement that compelled them to resist even minor rules and regulations. They fought professors, townsfolk, and each other with guns, knives, and fists. In response, professors armed themselves often with good reason: one was horsewhipped, others were attacked in their classrooms, and one was twice the target of a bomb. The university was often broke, and Jefferson s enemies, crouched and ready to pounce, looked constantly for reasons to close its doors.
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- Title
- Rot, Riot, and Rebellion: Mr. Jefferson's Struggle to Save the University That Changed America
- Author
- Bowman, Rex; Santos, Carlos
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press, Charlotesville
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0813934702
- ISBN 13
- 9780813934709
- Edition
- 1st
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- American History/Civil War
Thomas Jefferson had a radical dream for higher education. Designed to become the first modern public university, the University of Virginia was envisioned as a liberal campus with no religious affiliation, with elective courses and student self-government. Nearly two centuries after the universitys creation, its success now seems preordainedits founder, after all, was a great American genius. Yet what many dont know is that Jeffersons university almost failed.
In Rot, Riot, and Rebellion, award-winning journalists Rex Bowman and Carlos Santos offer a dramatic re-creation of the universitys early struggles. Political enemies, powerful religious leaders, and fundamentalist Christians fought Jefferson and worked to thwart his dream. Rich students, many from southern plantations, held a sense of honor and entitlement that compelled them to resist even minor rules and regulations. They fought professors, townsfolk, and each other with guns, knives, and fists. In response, professors armed themselvesoften with good reason: one was horsewhipped, others were attacked in their classrooms, and one was twice the target of a bomb. The university was often broke, and Jeffersons enemies, crouched and ready to pounce, looked constantly for reasons to close its doors.
Yet from its tumultuous, early days, Jeffersons universitya cauldron of unrest and educational daringblossomed into the first real American university. Here, Bowman and Santos bring us into the life of the University of Virginia at its founding to reveal how this once shaky institution grew into a novel, American-style university on which myriad other U.S. universities were modeled.
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About the Author
Former reporters for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Rex Bowman and Carlos Santos have been writing about Virginia for more than fifty years. Rex Bowman has written for Time, the Washington Times, and New York Times Upfront. Carlos Santos has covered stories for the New York Times and People Magazine as well as for the Associated Press.
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