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Is America Assembling a Set of Higher Education Classics?
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 22, Number 3, Spring 1999
- pp. 331-341
- 10.1353/rhe.1999.0011
- Article
- Additional Information
Recently certain publishers have been bringing the best out-of-print books on higher education back into circulation. Is higher education studies at the incipient stage of creating its own canon of "great books"? This essay examines what may be behind the surprising development, looks closely at Transaction Books, the publisher who has been most active in this revival, and reviews several of the "classics" selected for reprinting.