Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Biography of the early years of A. Bartlett Giamatti, who would become Yale University's first non-Anglo-Saxon Protestant president and commissioner of Major League Baseball.
In 1977, a thirty-nine-year-old Italian American professor of Renaissance literature, A. Bartlett Giamatti, was chosen as the next president of Yale University, a radical act that was immediately perceived as a threat to the university's embedded, eugenics-driven, Anglo-Saxon...