| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

Tulane: The Emergence of a Modern University, 1945–1980. By Clarence L. Mohr and Joseph E. Gordon. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. xxviii, 504 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2553-9.)

This book, an institutionally supported history written by a longtime history professor and dean emeritus, examines the process of transformation at Tulane University amid the social and political currents buffeting New Orleans, Louisiana, and the nation after World War II. It effectively chronicles the challenges and permutations as Tulane underwent reorganization from a provincial southern school to a nationally oriented research university. The presentation is thematically structured around a set of pervasive problems suggested by the exigencies and requisite adjustments engendered by the Cold War, the civil rights movement, 1960s activism, and, eventually, mounting fiscal pressures. . . .

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