Bart Giamatti : a profile / Robert P. Moncreiff.

This vivid portrait of Bart Giamatti encompasses his entire eventful life but focuses especially on his years at Yale University (1966-1986) and his brief career as a major league baseball executive (1986-1989). As scholar, teacher, and then university president, Giamatti was an admired and respecte...

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Main Author: Moncreiff, Robert P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Beginnings
  • Boyhood
  • Andover
  • Yale
  • Princeton
  • Yale:Scholar and Teacher
  • Yale in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Scholar
  • Teacher
  • President-Designate
  • Yale:University President
  • Some Early Personnel Decisions
  • The Homilies
  • Budget Reform
  • The President and New Haven
  • The Labor Crisis
  • Resignation
  • An Appraisal
  • Baseball
  • The Green Fields of the Mind
  • National League Presidentand Commissioner of Baseball
  • The Pete Rose Affair
  • Coda
  • Notes and Sources
  • Index