Title: Author should stick to scholarship not memoirs
Product review: A poorly written memoir of how, in the late 1960's, a nerdy philosophy teacher, Franklin Lears, changes the life of Mark Edmundson, a high school football tough with few future prospects. Even though Edmundson himself became a professor of English at U of Virginia and a prizewinning scholar as a result, this memoir veers frequently and wildly off the potentially interesting theme of the story into incoherent ramblings about high school life at the bottom of the intelligence chain. He even misses the opportunity of seeking out Lears as an adult to let him know the profound impact he had on at least one student during Lears' first and last year as a high school teacher. This book, which received a moderately positive review in Newsweek, turned out to be a real disappointment.
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