“The True University of These Days is a Collection of Books”

Blinderman Abraham . 1963. “Upton Sinclair’s Criticism of Higher Education in America: A Study of The Goose-Step, Its Sources, Critical History, and Relationship to Criticisms of Higher Education.” A Ph.D. dissertation in the History of Education, New York University. Dissertation Abstracts International, 25, no. 04, (1963): 2334. Accession No: AAG6406547.

Carlyle Thomas . 1908. Sartor Resartus / On Heroes and Hero Worship. London: J.M. Dent and Sons (Everyman’s Library).

Diggins John Patrick . 1999. Thorstein Veblen: Theorist of the Leisure Class. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (First published in 1978 as The Bard of Savagery.)

Ginsberg Ben . 2011. The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Gissing George . 1914. Books and the Quiet Life: Being Some Pages from The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing. Chosen by W.R.B. Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher.

Ross Edward Alsworth . 1896. Honest Dollars. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr.

Sinclair Upton . 1923. The Goose-Step: A Study of American Education. Pasadena, CA: Upton Sinclair.

Veblen Thorstein . 1918. The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men. New York, NY: B.W. Huebsch.