Political turmoil : a personal memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967 / Clark Kerr ; with the assistance of Marian L. Gade and Maureen Kawaoka ; foreword by Neil J. Smelser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kerr, Clark, 1911-2003.

Contributor:

Gade, Marian L., 1934-

Kawaoka, Maureen.

Series:

The gold and the blue ; v.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College administrators--Biography.

College administrators.

University of California (System)--History.

University of California (System).

University of California, Berkeley--Presidents--Biography.

University of California, Berkeley.

Kerr, Clark, 1911-2003.

Kerr, Clark.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (493 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Los Angeles Times called the first volume of The Gold and the Blue "a major contribution to our understanding of American research universities." This second of two volumes continues the story of one of the last century's most influential figures in higher education. A leading visionary, architect, leader, and fighter for the University of California, Clark Kerr was chancellor of the Berkeley campus from 1952 to 1958 and president of the university from 1958 to 1967. He saw the university through its golden years-a time of both great advancement and great conflict. This absorbing memoir is an intriguing insider's account of how the University of California rose to the peak of scientific and scholarly stature and how, under Kerr's unique leadership, it evolved into the institution it is today. In Volume II: Political Turmoil, Kerr turns to the external and political environment of the 1950's and 1960's, contrasting the meteoric rise of the University of California to the highest pinnacle of academic achievement with its troubled political context. He describes his attempts to steer a middle course between attacks from the political Right and Left and discusses the continuing attacks on the university, and on him personally, by the state Un-American Activities Committee. He provides a unique point of view of the Free Speech Movement on the Berkeley campus in the fall of 1964. He also details the events of January 1967, when he was dismissed as president of the university by the Board of Regents.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Figure and Tables

Foreword

Preface

1. Politicizing The Ivory Tower

2. The Catastrophic Loyalty Oath Controversy

3. "Un-American" Activities

4. Youth Uprisings Around The World

5. The Development Of Student Political Movements In The United States

6. The Fatal Attractions Of The Berkeley Campus

7. The Sproul Directives

8. The Issue Of Political Advocacy On Campus

9. Things Start To Fall Apart

10. The Lighted Match

11. The Conflagration

12. The Center Holds And Puts Out The Flames

13. The Center Starts To Build Back

14. The Center Coalesces

15. Reagan And The Regents

16. The Last Day-Losing Big Or Winning Big?

Appendix 1. Selections From FBI Files

Appendix 2. List Of Documentary Supplements

Notes

Acknowledgments

Credits

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612357008

9781282357006

128235700X

9780520929531

0520929535

9781597346382

1597346381

OCLC:

437143981