{"product_id":"from-the-cast-iron-shore-in-lifelong-pursuit-of-liberal-learning-9780268104023","title":"From the Cast-Iron Shore: In Lifelong Pursuit of Liberal Learning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Cast-Iron Shore\u003c\/i\u003e is part personal memoir and part participant-observer's educational history. As president emeritus at Williams College in Massachusetts, Francis Oakley details its progression from a fraternity-dominated institution in the 1950s to the leading liberal arts college it is today, as ranked by \u003ci\u003eU.S. News and World Report\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOakley's own life frames this transformation. He talks of growing up in England, Ireland, and Canada, and his time as a soldier in the British Army, followed by his years as a student at Yale University. As an adult, Oakley's provocative writings on church authority stimulated controversy among Catholic scholars in the years after Vatican II. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Medieval Academy of America, and an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he has written extensively on medieval intellectual and religious life and on American higher education.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOakley combines this account of his life with reflections on social class, the relationship between teaching and research, the shape of American higher education, and the challenge of educational leadership in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. The book is an account of the life of a scholar who has made a deep impact on his historical field, his institution, his nation, and his church, and will be of significant appeal to administrators of liberal arts colleges and universities, historians, medievalists, classicists, and British and American academics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francis Oakley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 550\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.12d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268104023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOakley, Francis:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Francis Oakley is the Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas Emeritus, and president emeritus of Williams College. He is also president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, New York. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Watershed of Modern Politics: Law, Virtue, Kingship and Consent (1300 to 1650)\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Mortgage of the Past: Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance (1050 to 1300)\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40189600497779,"sku":"9.78027E+12","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_753c1d35-66bc-4936-b902-0da9ad2a148b.jpg?v=1655817126","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/from-the-cast-iron-shore-in-lifelong-pursuit-of-liberal-learning-9780268104023","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}