{"product_id":"2026100007453-secondhand-the-closed-corporation-american-universities-in-crisis","title":"The Closed Corporation: American Universities In Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the height of America's cultural upheaval, investigative journalist James Ridgeway turned his unflinching gaze on the hallowed halls of higher education, exposing a system riddled with corporate entanglements, political compromise, and institutional self-interest. The Closed Corporation: American Universities in Crisis argues that America's great universities — long celebrated as bastions of free inquiry and democratic idealism — had become deeply enmeshed with government defence contracts, industrial interests, and a ruling class of administrators more concerned with power than pedagogy, leaving students and faculty alike disenfranchised from the very institutions meant to serve them.\n\nRidgeway's work is a landmark of 1960s investigative journalism, written with the urgent, unsparing prose of a reporter who refuses to be placated by institutional spin. He chronicles the creeping corporatisation of academia with forensic precision, drawing on specific case studies and damning financial disclosures to illustrate how research agendas were quietly shaped by Pentagon funding and corporate donors. Decades after its publication, the questions it raises about academic independence, the commodification of knowledge, and who ultimately controls the university remain as provocative — and as unresolved — as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130997350619,"sku":"2026100007453-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/81e075b6-4bbc-4b42-b745-cf3abd5e03e5.png?v=1786594062","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007453-secondhand-the-closed-corporation-american-universities-in-crisis","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}