A. Bartlett Giamatti, Author W. W. Norton & Company $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-30671-2
In this collection of essays, based on addresses given in the late '70s and '80s to Yale students, the emphasis is on academic mission, on what Giamatti terms ``civility.'' ``Eloquent in support of the values of a liberal education, these essays...
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A. Bartlett Giamatti, Author W. W. Norton & Company $19.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-393-02622-1
Former professor of Renaissance literature and president of Yale University, commissioner-elect of baseball Giamatti is a practiced commentator on the concept of mission in a changing world. In this collection of essays, based on addresses given in...
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A. Bartlett Giamatti, Author, Kenneth Robson, Editor, David Halberstam, Foreword by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $17.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-56512-192-8
In the baseball pantheon, Giamatti occupies an unusual place: leaving the presidency of Yale University, he became the president of the National League and then, for the five months before his death in 1989, the commissioner of baseball. Although...
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