What do political scientists do when they get together (in addition to joining in learned discourse)? Eulau, professor emeritus at Stanford University, answers this question in his humorous and iconoclastic book. The author draws on his many experiences as a participant observer of his academic colleagues' foibles and fumbles (with a few facts thrown in) during the past half century.
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Table of Contents
A Nonmandatory Preface with Some Thanks
Abbreviations
Prologue: The Origins of a Career or Selected Documents for an Academic Resume
1. My Forefathers and Other Falsifiable Stories or A Little Lie Can Get You Further Than You Think
2. The Curriculum Vitae and the Iron Law of the Academy or Blowing Your Own Horn Doesn't Hurt Anybody Else
3. Perks, Boons, and Boondoggles or When Freebies Get You Less Than Meets the Eye
4. The Perplexing Perversities of Perjury or Why Untruth Is Not Always the Opposite of Truth
5. The Lonely Crowd—Students as Products and Peers or If Your Colleagues Only Treated Us the Way You Do
6. What a (Department) Chair and a Dog Have in Common or The Great Experience of Being Kicked and Kicking Back
7. The Faculty's Fallacious but Felicitous Faculties or Nemesis and When Not to Love Thy Colleague as Thyself
8. Life and Representation on a Company Farm or Professor Quick-Win Hires Consultant Quick-Fix
9. The Rating, Ranking, and Baiting Game orDon't Believe All That You Read about Yourself Even if True
10. Funding, Foundations, and Fellowships or Better Get What You Can While the Going Is Good
11. The Pleasures of Conferencing and Other Indoor Sports or You Haven't Lived Until Living It Up in French Lick
12. At Last a Little Journal All My Own or Saying No, No, No Can Get You into Trouble
13. Burps, Blurbs, and the Joy of Having a Book Editor or How to Call on Your Friends and Deceive Your Readers
14. Awards and Rewards for Meritocratic Conduct orBeing Surprised on Being Honored without Even Trying
15. The Fine Arts of Gossiping, Hyping, and Spinning or How the Academic Mind Really Works
16. Trauma, Valium, and a Cocktail Called Martini or Surviving the Revolution in the Trenches of the Hilton
Epilogue: De Mortuis Nil nisi Bonum, or Better Write Your Own Obituary Before It Is Too Late
Index
