Racing Odysseus : a college president becomes a freshman again / Roger H. Martin.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, [(c)2008.]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 262 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0520942078
- 9780520942073
- 1281752703
- 9781281752703
- LA2317.278
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Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | LA2317.278 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocn560506265 |
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Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
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