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How Harvard Rules: Reason in the Service of Empire
by John Trumphour
South End Press

Our Price: $16.00

'The contributors to this book, all Harvard graduates or faculty, assert that Harvard is, at least partially, racist, ethnocentric, sexist, and hostile to progressive intellectuals, and that it has compromised its independence. ' - Library Journal

Harvard: A Living Portrait
by Steve Dunwell
Back Bay Press

Our Price: $39.95

144 pages of color photos of Harvard Square and the University.

Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936
by Samuel Eliot Morison
Belknap Press

Our Price: $25.50

Founding of Harvard College
by Samuel Eliot Morison
Harvard University Press

Our Price: $23.95

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samuel Eliot Morison traces the roots of American universities in Europe, providing "a lively contemporary perspective...a realistic picture of the founding of the first American university north of the Rio Grande" - Lewis Gannett,

Glimpses of the Harvard Past
by Oscar Handlin
Harvard University Press

Our Price: $18.95

The authors cover the origins of Harvard and the foundations of Harvard's character, structure, and style of governance; the shifting relationships and power struggles among faculty, administration, and students over the years; and the growing diversity of the student body.

Search for God at Harvard
by Ari L. Goldman
Ballantine Books

Our Price: $12.95

Written with warmth, humor, and penetrating clarity, Goldman describes his extraordinary year, the surprising and enlightening students and teachers, he met, and his ongoing quest to determine what it means to take religion seriously today.

Harvard: An Architectural History
by Bainbridge Bunting
Belknap Press

Our Price: $29.95

This is an incisive and fully illustrated history of Harvard's architecture told by the distinguished architectural historian Bainbridge Bunting, author of Houses of Boston's Back Bay.

Harvard Century: The Making of a University to a Nation
by Richard N. Smith
Harvard University Press

Our Price: $18.95

The Harvard Century tells the story of how Harvard, America's oldest and foremost institution of higher learning, has become synonymous with the nation, their goals and standards reflecting each other, each setting the other's agenda.

Harvard Observed: An Illustrated History of the University in the Twentieth Century
by John T. Bethell
Harvard University Press

Our Price: $42.00

Depicting the evolution of twentieth-century Harvard in the broader context of national and world events, Harvard Observed has much to say and show about the academic rites, intellectual arguments, sexual mores, fads, and folklore that became touchstones for successive generations of Harvardians.

Harvard University: Campus Guide
by Douglass Shand-Tucci
Princeton Architectural Press

Our Price: $24.95

The Campus Guides are beautifully illustrated books on the design and history of American campuses. Each book profiles over 75 major buildings and gardens on the campus and its surrounding community, and also provides visitor information.

Harvard Works Because We Do
by Greg Halpern
W.W. Norton &

Our Price: $30.00

The personal accounts presented here are poignant and illuminating reminders of the wide disparity of circumstances that exist in this land of plenty.

Harvard A to Z
by John T. Bethell
Harvard University Press

Our Price: $25.95

This volume traverses the gamut of Harvardiana from Aab and Admissions to X Cage and Z Closet. In between are some two hundred entries written by three Harvard veterans who bring to the task over 125 years of experience within the university.

When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today
by Harvey Cox
Houghton Mifflin Company

Our Price: $25.00

Cox shows how we can extrapolate answers from Jesus's parables and bridge the gap between the ancient and modern worlds.

Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture
by Douglass Shand-Tucci
St. Martin's Griffin

Our Price: $15.95

In a book deeply impressive in its reach while also deeply embedded in its storied setting, bestselling historian Douglass Shand-Tucci explores the nature and expression of sexual identity at America’s oldest university during the years of its greatest influence.

The Rarest of the Rare: Stunning Specimens at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
by Nancy Pick
HarperCollins

Our Price: $22.95

The vast collections of animals, minerals, and plants at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are among the oldest in the country, dating back to the 1700s. The Rarest of the Rare tells the fascinating stories behind the scientific and historic specimens that fill the museum's halls.

Veritas: Harvard College and the American Experience
by Andrew Schlesinger
Ivan R. Dee Publisher

Our Price: $27.50

Schlesinger tells the facinating story of Harvard College as an American institution. He examines the important actions and decisions of its leadership from Puritan times to the present.

Harvard Rules: The Struggle for the Soul of the World's Most Powerful University
by Richard Bradley
HarperCollins Publishers

Our Price: $25.95

Written despite the university's officialopposition, Harvard Rules uncovers what really goes on behind Harvard's storied walls -- the politics, sex, ambition, infighting, and intrigue that run rampant within the world's most important university.

The Only Game That Matters: The Harvard/Yale Rivalry
by Bernard M. Corbett
Three Rivers Press (CA)

Our Price: $12.95

Known simply as “The Game,” this tradition-soaked Ivy League feud began in 1875, and it has been leading the evolution of college football ever since. Although the Ivy League hasn’t had a national champion in decades, The Game still stands alone in the college football pantheon.

The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admissions at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton and the Shaping of an American Elite
by Jerome Karabel
Houghton Mifflin Company

Our Price: $28.00

The competition for a spot in the Ivy League--long considered the ticket to success--is fierce and getting fiercer. But ever since the 1920s, when bitter anti-Semitism caused elite universities to limit the number of Jews, admissions policies have been both tightly controlled and shrouded in secrecy.

Harvard's Civil War: A History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
by Richard Miller
University Press of New England

Our Price: $35.00

A regimental history of one of the Civil War’s most distinguished units.

Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals
by William Wright
St. Martin's

Our Price: $25.95

In May of 1920,Cyril Wilcox, a freshman suspended from Harvard, was found sprawled dead on his bed, his room filled with gas—a suicide. The note he left behind revealed his secret life as part of a circle of homosexual students. The resulting witch hunt and the lives it cost remains one of the most shameful episodes in the history of America's premiere university. Harvard's Secret Court is a moving indictment of the human toll of intolerance.

Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class
by Ross Gregory Douthat
Hyperion Books

Our Price: $24.95

Part memoir, part social critique, Privilege is an absorbing assessment of one of the world's most celebrated universities: Harvard.

Harvard University: College Prowler off the Record
by Dominic Hood
College Prowler

Our Price: $14.95

Complete with hundreds of quotes, grades, stats, and reviews, each student-written guide offers a comprehensive collection of information on one particular school.

Harvard Yard
by William Martin
Warner Books

Our Price: $7.99

Mixing fact and fiction, blending the past and present, this riveting treasure hunt unveils the story of Harvard as it grows from a one-room schoolhouse to America's most famous university.

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