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The Fall of the Ivory Tower: Government Funding, Corruption, and the Bankrupting of American Higher Education
by Roche, George Charles
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- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0895264870
- ISBN 13
- 9780895264879
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About This Item
U.S.A: Regnery Publishing, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacker As New. In a devastating critique of American higher education, George Roche explains how and why the smoke screen of success in America's institutions of higher education mask huge deficits, overpaid administrators and professors, and dismal standards of education. Fine binding of olive-green half cloth with sharp and bright gilt titles, cream paper-wrapped boards, clean, neat, tight & solid volume. Internals and page edges clean and white, also as new. 310 pages with Endnotes and Index. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Regnery Publishing, USA, 1994.
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- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021567
- Title
- The Fall of the Ivory Tower: Government Funding, Corruption, and the Bankrupting of American Higher Education
- Author
- Roche, George Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0895264870
- ISBN 13
- 9780895264879
- Publisher
- Regnery Publishing
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1994
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- HIGHER EDUCATION UNIVERSITIES COLLEGES STATE AID
- Bookseller catalogs
- Education;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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