基本信息出版社：Hyperion
页码：304 页
出版日期：2006年03月
ISBN：1401307558
International Standard Book Number：1401307558
条形码：9781401307554
EAN：9781401307554
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 Now in paperback, the penetrating critique of elite universities and the culture of privilege they perpetuate

Ross Gregory Douthat arrived at Harvard University in the fall of 1998 carrying an idealized vision of Ivy League life. But the Harvard of his dreams, an institution fueled by intellectual curiosity and entrusted with the keys to liberal education, never materialized. Instead, he found himself in a school rife with elitism and moneyed excess, an incubator for the grasping and ambitious, a college seduced by the religion of success.

So Douthat was educated at Harvard, but what Harvard taught him was not what he had gone there to learn. Instead, he was immersed in the culture of America?s ever-swelling ruling class -- a culture of privilege, of ambition and entitlement, in which a vast network of elite schools are viewed by students, parents, administrators, and professors more as stepping-stones to high salaries and coveted social networks than as institutions entrusted with academic excellence.

Privilege is a powerfully rendered portrait of a young manhood, a pointed social critique of this country?s most esteemed institutions, and an exploration of issues such as affirmative action, grade inflation, political correctness, and curriculum reform.
作者简介 While at Harvard, Ross Gregory Douthat wrote a biweekly column for the Harvard Crimson and edited the Harvard salient. He now works at the Atlantic Monthly and lives in Washington, D.C.
媒体推荐 "A withering indictment of Harvard?s institutional culture." -- Booklist (starred review)

"An affecting, revealing -- and piercing and withering -- portrait of Harvard by a young conservative. . ." -- Evan Thomas, author of Robert Kennedy and John Paul Jones

"Mr. Douthat writes beautifully, with a rare lyricism." -- Wall Street Journal