Memoirs of an Obscure Professor

During the heyday of McCarthyism, the Chicago Tribune, offended by something he had written, contemptuously dismissed Paul Boller as "an obscure professor" - he was then teaching at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Some forty-five years later, reflecting on the incident, Boller wrote an essay on what it was like to be an obscure professor at one of America's less publicized campuses in a conservative community during the late 1950s and early 1960s. That essay became the foundation for this collection of autobiographical selections reflecting the interests and pursuits of a man who gained national recognition, both inside the academic community and beyond, but still values his obscurity. Whether it is a study of the much-maligned Calvin Coolidge or an account of his Navy service as a translator of Japanese during World War II, Boller brings to his writing a fresh approach and a lively and wry wit.

Product details

• Authors: Paul F Boller, Paul F. Boller, Boller- P, Boller P, Boller- P
• Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1992
• EAN: 9780875650975
• ISBN: 978-0-87565-097-5
• No. of pages: 258
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous