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Fresh Air, James Wood and Derek Bok

By: Terry Gross
Narrated by: Terry Gross
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Book critic James Wood and former Harvard president Derek Bok on this edition of Fresh Air for June 30, 2003. James Wood is book critic for The New Republic. He's making his own literary debut with the new novel The Book Against God about a young man, the son of a priest who becomes an atheist. Wood is also the author of "the Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief." Former longtime President of Harvard University Derek Bok's new book is, Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education. Among the commercial activities at many universities and colleges these days are: drug companies giving money to medical schools, industry buying the rights to scientific discoveries, and industry-endowed faculty chairs. Bok is critical of such ventures. (Broadcast Date: June 30, 2003)
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