<p>^ From an Amazon review of the book.</p>
<p>1.0 out of 5 stars Extremely biased, January 27, 2010
By Michael Bess “michael” (Nashville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Choosing the Right College 2010-11: The Whole Truth about America’s Top Schools (Paperback)
If you are one of those viewers of Fox News who accepts its self-characterization as “fair and balanced,” and if you believe Rush Limbaugh is the Messiah, then this book is for you. It perpetuates all the extremist right-wing myths about universities and professors, providing highly selective, biased, and tendentious evidence for its preposterous assertions. I am a political moderate and centrist who has been teaching in higher education for 20 years, and if you do decide to buy this book then I urge you to view its assertions with a healthy dose of critical skepticism (just as I believe you should do for an extreme leftist book).</p>
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<p>Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Vassar, Haverford–all receive “red lights.” However, not a single Ivy League school with the exception of Brown–surprise, surprise–receives a “red light.” They get off with a “yellow light” because the author is nasty enough but not so bold as to threaten this group of elite universities.</p>
<p>You can feel comfortable voicing your opinion at Amherst, and there are professors at Amherst who teach according to conservative ideologies, although they are in the minority.</p>
<p>Frankly, however, you will not find political diversity in the nation’s best universities, whether it is among professors or students:</p>
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