# Ivory Tower

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- Book: [Ivory Tower](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-b-stewart/ivory-tower) ([Ivory Tower.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-b-stewart/ivory-tower.md))
- Authors: [James B Stewart](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-b-stewart)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-0495-835-3
- Published: 2027-03-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In 2024, Claudine Gay – the President of Harvard – resigned after a disastrous Congressional questioning over antisemitism on campus. Donald Trump was gleeful, lambasting the university as a hotbed of ‘woke’ politics. Gay’s defenders were appalled, casting her as the victim of a reactionary witch-hunt. What neither side acknowledged was that Gay’s ousting was only the most recent moment in a decades long turf war on Harvard Quad: one that pitted Marxist sociologists against libertarian economists, Democratic activists against Republican presidents, and Wall Street philanthropists against student activists. Here, James Stewart – New York Times reporter and Pulitzer-winning author of Den of Thieves – offers the definitive inside story of the academic battles raging at America’s most famous college. The story of Harvard’s culture war, he shows, is also the story of America’s.