Chapter 1: Tory preamble: the short history of King's College -- Chapter 2: Flirting with republicanism -- Chapter 3: Knickerbocker days: the limits of academic reform -- Chapter 4: Midcentury stirrings -- Chapter 5: Takeoff -- Chapter 6: The aspect of a university -- Chapter 7: Bolt to the top -- Chapter 8: 1917: Twilight of idols -- Chapter 9: Jews at Columbia -- Chapter 10: The invention of Columbia College -- Chapter 11: Prosperity lost -- Chapter 12: Columbia in the American century -- Chapter 13: A second flowering -- Chapter 14: Afternoon on the Hudson -- Chapter 15: Riding the whirlwind: Columbia '68 -- Chapter 16: It's about Columbia -- Chapter 17: A tough place -- Chapter 18: Bottoming out -- Chapter 19: Columbia recovered -- Chapter 20: The way we are -- Epilogue: Worth the candle?
Summary
-- Merri Rosenberg, Education Update
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-687) and index