Thinker, Sailor, Brother, Spy - John E. Maher - Paperback

Armed with a doctorate from Harvard, the hero of this novel sallies into academe & becomes a professor of economics, Dean of a business school, critic of the desexualization of women, & dilettante lover. But before all this, he serves as First Lieutenant of the destroyer Hobson during World War II &, recalled to active duty, he becomes Chief Engineer of the destroyer HUNT during the Korean War. His experiences aboard ship are reminiscent of the trials & tribulations portrayed in Herman Wouck's THE CANINE MUTINY. Throughout his errant life, he encounters such leading lights as Mark Van Doren, Mae & Walter Reuther, Vernon Jordan (his family's first babysitter), Jimmy Hoffa, & Vladimir Androsov, a professor from Moscow. The literate byplay between John & his brother Donald, a professor of English & comparative literature, yield amazing insights into the publish-or-perish cuckoo land of university imbroglios. The revelations of a professor's life include the hothouse atmosphere of Wesleyan University &, more extensively, the controversies at Southern Connecticut State University where his charges of plagiarism are said to have helped to unseat the president & where charges of sex discrimination & endless litigation have long harassed the scholarly community. Distributed by Baker & Taylor Books, Box 6920, Bridgewater, NJ 08807-0920; 908- 218-0400.Maher, John E. is the author of 'Thinker, Sailor, Brother, Spy - John E. Maher - Paperback' with ISBN 9780964312104 and ISBN 0964312107.