{"product_id":"practicing-classics-lee-t-pearcy-9780472078387","title":"Practicing Classics: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePracticing Classics\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir about education in America between the end of WWII and the early 21st century. Not only does it consider memory, its truths, and its deceptions, but it also unravels the complexities of class, race, gender, and social positioning in education. Lee Pearcy's story begins with the 1957 desegregation crisis at Little Rock Central High School and its aftermath, describing how growing up in this environment shaped his academic and personal life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs he came to study Latin and then Classics, Pearcy's education intersected with the student disturbances at Columbia University in 1968 and a feminist revolution that brought significant numbers of women into the classical professoriate. He gives a first-hand account of a scandalous episode in the toxic administrative culture that characterized the classics department at the University of Texas in the 1980s. Against the background of these events, he unfolds his own education as a classicist and his development from apprentice to journeyman to confident teacher of Latin and Greek. \u003ci\u003ePracticing Classics\u003c\/i\u003e will engage readers who care about American education, classical studies, or the ways that choices, chances, and contingencies shaped one man's life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lee T. Pearcy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472078380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472078387\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Lee T. Pearcy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48997438161151,"sku":"9780472078387","price":49.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/practicing-classics-lee-t-pearcy-9780472078387","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}