The Lamp in the Desert: The Story of the University of Arizona - Couverture souple

Martin, Douglas D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1941451020 ISBN 13 : 9781941451021

Editeur : University of Arizona Press, 2014

Synopsis

With six teachers, no books, and thirty-two students, Old Main opened its doors to the first pupils of the University of Arizona in 1891. A rugged beacon among the cacti, the campus emerged from a forty-acre donation from two gamblers and a saloonkeeper. The Lamp in the Desert is Douglas D. Martin's history of the first seventy-five years of the University of Arizona. From early football wins by Coach McKale to the work of celebrated scholars, this is a story of the places and the people whose names are still visible reminders of the early innovators that helped to build a world-class institution.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Newsman and historian Douglas D. Martin was a born story-teller. A typesetter at fifteen and later Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, he "retired" as managing editor of the Detroit Free Press in 1945, coming west to head the University of Arizona Department of Journalism. He wrote The Lamp in the Desert from a third-floor office in the campus library overlooking Tucson.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Arizona Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1941451020
• ISBN 13: 9781941451021
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
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• Personne responsable: non disponible