Brandeis University: A Host at Last

By Abram L. Sachar

Book Overview

In this engaging account, the first president of Brandeis tells how many formidable obstacles to launching a new university without initial capital endowment or any hope of alumni support for at least... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874515815
• ISBN13: 9780874515817
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating history of Brandeis University

This book is an interesting history of Brandeis University written by its first President. I attended Brandeis from 1968-1972 and remember seeing Dr. Sachar often doing his research in the library there. He was a kind, very "grandfatherly" figure. He explains why and how Brandeis came to be, how the school attracted many scholars who had fled occupied Europe, and how it rose to prominence in a very short period of time. He has separate chapters on each of the major departments, and devotes a fair amount of space to some of its most famous professors, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Leonard Bernstein. Overall, a well-written, interesting volume.