If you really want to understand the horrors of war, don’t just read accounts written years after a battle, but instead read first-hand accounts by soldiers who were on the front lines. Similarly, to understand what has happened in the hostile takeover of American college English departments, it’s best to read a description by a professor who fought to preserve them as places where students are taught to write well by studying books by great authors. Fought and lost. His story is at once enlightening and depressing.
Cotter’s experiences destroy the notion that zealous left-wing professors are acting in good faith.The book at hand is Broken English Departments: The Repair Manual by Reynolds Cotter, a pen name. It tells the author’s tale of earning his Ph.D. so he could teach students about great literature, obtaining a faculty position and tenure at a prestigious state university, and then losing his lonely fight against “progressives” who were determined to reshape the English department to suit their ideological agenda.