Racing Odysseus : a college president becomes a freshman again / Roger H. Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Roger H., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Martin, Roger H., 1943-.

Martin, Roger H.

St. John's College (Annapolis, Md.).

College presidents--United States--Biography.

College presidents.

Adult college students--United States--Biography.

Adult college students.

Cancer--Patients--United States--Biography.

Cancer.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The idea of reliving youth is a common fantasy, but who among us is actually courageous enough to try it? After surviving a deadly cancer against tremendous odds, college president Roger H. Martin did just that?he enrolled at St. John's College, the Great Books school in Annapolis, Maryland, as a sixty-one-year-old freshman. This engaging, often humorous memoir of his semester at St. John's tells of his journey of discovery as he falls in love again with Plato, Socrates, and Homer, improbably joins the college crew team, and negotiates friendships across generational divides. Along the way, Ma

Contents:

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Orientation (Four Years Later); 2. Hubris; 3. Homesickness; 4. Dysfunctional Families; 5. Navy; 6. Old Farts; 7. Community; 8. Victory; Epilogue; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-262).

ISBN:

9786611752705

9781281752703

1281752703

9781435684805

143568480X

9780520942073

0520942078

OCLC:

476183623