The Lamp in the Desert: The Story of the University of Arizona (Sentinel Peak Books) - Softcover

Martin, Douglas D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1941451020 ISBN 13: 9781941451021

Verlag: The University of Arizona Press, 2014

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With six teachers, no books, and thirty-two students, Old Main opened its doors to the first pupils of the University of Arizona in 1891. A rugged beacon among the cacti, the campus emerged from a forty-acre donation from two gamblers and a saloonkeeper. The Lamp in the Desert is Douglas D. Martin's history of the first seventy-five years of the University of Arizona. From early football wins by Coach McKale to the work of celebrated scholars, this is a story of the places and the people whose names are still visible reminders of the early innovators that helped to build a world-class institution.

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Newsman and historian Douglas D. Martin was a born story-teller. A typesetter at fifteen and later Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, he &;retired&; as managing editor of the Detroit Free Press in 1945, coming west to head the University of Arizona Department of Journalism. He wrote The Lamp in the Desert from a third-floor office in the campus library overlooking Tucson.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The University of Arizona Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1941451020
• ISBN 13: 9781941451021
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande