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The Guardian Poplar

A Memoir of Deep Roots, Journey, and Rediscovery

The Guardian Poplar( )
Author: Peterson, Chase Nebeker
Foreword by: West, Cornel
ISBN:978-1-60781-998-1
Publication Date:Apr 2012
Publisher:University of Utah Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $39.95
Book Description:

When Barney Clark received the Jarvik-7 artificial heart in 1983 and Cold Fusion came under fire in 1989, Chase Peterson, as the University of Utah president, was inevitably pulled into these campus events. While these episodes may be the best known in Peterson's professional history, they are certainly not the only stories that make his autobiography worth reading.

The Guardian Poplar tells of a man who grew up in small-town Utah and carried his pioneer and...
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Pages:328
Author Biography
Peterson, Chase Nebeker (Author)
Professor, writer, and civil rights activist Cornel West was born on June 2, 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and raised in Sacramento. He graduated from Harvard University in 1973 with an M.A. and later taught African-American studies there. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Haverford College, and Princeton University, the latter as professor of religion and director of African-American studies. West earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1980. He has written more than twenty books, including Race Matters and Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America.

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