Table of Contents
Author's Note ix
1 Prologue: The Inauguration, 1959 1
2 Postmark: Willcox, Arizona, 1928 7
3 Postmark: Cambridge, England, 1930 22
4 The Blind Date, 1939 42
5 Postmark: Somewhere in Italy, 1944 62
6 The Homecoming, 1945 86
7 Goodbye to New York, 1946 89
8 In the Second Chair, 1949 101
9 Rutgers v. the Red Scare, 1954 109
10 Philosophy of Education v. the "Big Lie" 116
11 The Inauguration, 1959 128
12 Into the Fishbowl, 1959 133
13 The Cultural Wasteland, 1959 150
14 Nothing at Rutgers Was Ever Easy 154
15 Crisis, 1961 159
16 Faith and Reason 165
17 Score Once More, 1965 170
18 The Inflection Point, 1965 179
19 The Silent Steinway, 1965 191
20 The Jewel in the Crown 205
21 The Year Everything Went Wrong, 1968 211
22 Law and Order, 1968 223
23 Faith and Reason v. Law and Order 228
24 June 1970 253
25 Complicated, 1971 258
26 Guggenheim, 1972 266
27 The Door Opens, Then Closes Tight, 1975-1977 270
28 The Last Post, 1977 277
29 The Hope That Lies within You, 2020 281
Appendix: Personal Histories, Correspondence, Reminiscences, and Interviews 289
Acknowledgments 291
Notes 293
Bibliography 309
Index 313
