- Hardcover: 250 pages
- Publisher: Harbor House (May 25 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1891799177
- ISBN-13: 978-1891799174
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.6 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 408 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #792,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
This lively collection of essays surveys the campus culture wars from the conservative side of the trenches. Adams, a criminal justice professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, takes a big swipe at the politically correct, feminists, gay activists, the diversity establishment and what he portrays as the mealy-mouthed administrators and thin-skinned colleagues and students who are quick to fire off thoughtless allegations of racism and sexism. He takes on Cornel West, for his defense of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and The Vagina Monologues, for a general over-ripeness, but mostly sticks to his own experiences asserting First Amendment rights against what he feels is the heavy-handed and censorious climate of left-wing orthodoxy at his own school. Adams clearly relishes the role of conservative gadfly. He casts himself as the eternal target of tirades in the cafeteria or the men’s room, and enjoys offering up provocative Modest Proposals, like university affirmative action programs for underrepresented Republicans, or a Men’s Resource Center where victims of false rape accusations can retreat for counseling. The book’s last 50 pages are devoted to an acrimonious exchange of e-mails with a radical student over the September 11 attacks, which escalated into an accusation of libel and an investigation of Adams’s e-mail by UNCW, and finally ignited a national press rumpus that landed him a guest spot on Hannity and Colmes. Some of the contretemps he writes about, like a professor’s wild charges of sexual harassment and "terrorism" against some colleagues, or a catfight between two female professors over a male job applicant, seem like little more than departmental politics run amok. But Adams has a dry wit and a sharp, if partisan, eye for the excesses and fatuities of the left, one that raises important issues about attitudes toward free speech and tolerance on campus.
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Prof.Adams lampoons sacred liberal cows such as affirmative action, ethnocentrism, Gay Pride, cultural insensitivity training, multiculturalism and censorship.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
No Canadian Universities?!?!?!?!?,
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This review is from: Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel: Confessions of a Conservative College Professor (Hardcover)
Sean W. wrote "(To the reviewer who said that American universities don't qualify as "higher learning," why have I heard of no Canadian schools that match the renown of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the like?)"The answer is simple, your ignorance is why you have never heard of McGill University or Queen's University, both of which provide much higher degrees of education than most universities in the world. You might try looking outside the borders and you'll realize there is a whole world there - but then if you read the likes of Dr. Adams, I won't hold my breath waiting for you to take a broad view!!
3.0 out of 5 stars
It is a great book. . .,
By A Customer
This review is from: Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel: Confessions of a Conservative College Professor (Hardcover)
But I was disappointed by the fact that I had already read almost the entire thing on townhall.com. Had I known that the book was simply a collection of Dr. Adams' articles from his website, I definitely would have waited for the paperback.For anyone who is not familiar with Dr. Adams, but finds the topic interesting, I would recommend the book.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Same old, salme old. Snore.,
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This review is from: Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel: Confessions of a Conservative College Professor (Hardcover)
If Mike Adams would spend less time making it obvious that he loves the sound of his own voice and the look of his own words in print more than he loves actually saying what needs to be said, this would be a better book. I give it 2 stars because it is readable and some parts did make me smile. He's almost funny in an amateurish-comedian sort of way.What Mike is more interested in than "truth" is fame and some form of entertainment contract. He vies to be the next "Limbaugh" or "Coulter", but sadly, lacks the wit, charisma, or the insight to the issues that these others have, or had. Which is why, of course, so few people have heard of or read his virtually "self-published" ego book. Mike Adams is not very funny. Even if what he says is true. Mike Adams comes across as a parody of somebody smarter than he is. Too bad, Mike.
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