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Also by Roger Rosenblatt:

The Boy Detective, November 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Kayak Morning, January 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Unless It Moves The Human Heart, January 2011
Paperback
Making Toast, February 2010
Hardcover
Beet, February 2008
Hardcover
Lapham Rising, February 2006
Hardcover

BEET
By: Roger Rosenblatt

Ecco
February 2008
On Sale: January 29, 2008
240 pages
ISBN: 0061344273
EAN: 9780061344275
Hardcover
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Fiction

Why is Professor Peace Porterfield trying to save Beet College? His own wife, Livi, hates the place. The Board of Trustees, led by developer Joel Bollovate, has squandered the endowment. Debutante-cum-self-styled-poet Matha Polite, an indis-criminate radical with a four-student following, wants to bring the institution down. Akim Ben Ladin (né Arthur Horowitz), a sweet-tempered terrorist hopeful and the college’s only Homeland Security major (who lives in an off-campus cave), wants to blow up the school. Faculty members, when not concocting useless, trendy courses, fly at one another’s throats. Not to mention that American higher education is already going down the tubes.

So why is Porterfield trying to save Beet?

Beats us.

Media Buzz

NewsHour with Jim Lehrer - January 31, 2008