Description: Two award-winning journalists offer a dramatic re-creation of the early struggles of the University of Virginia, the first modern public university founded by Thomas Jefferson who envisioned a liberal campus with no religious affiliation, with elective courses, and student self-government.
Review Quotes:
A lively, very well-told account of the university's early, ugly years. The chronicle of drunken, loutish behavior is artfully handled.
--Peter S. Onuf, Senior Research Fellow, Thomas Jefferson Foundation, and Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia