Harvard Rules: Lawrence Summers and the Battle for the World's Most Powerful University

Under the presidency of former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, Harvard University, has been embroiled in controversies that have spilled over the ivy-covered walls of the campus and onto the front pages of the American newspapers. In this work, Bradley (former executive editor of George magazine) exposes the inside politics that have roiled the Harvard campus during Summers' tenure, addressing the reasons the Harvard Corporation picked Summers for the job, conflicts between Summers and African American studies professors Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West, and various other academic controversies.