St Martins Pr, 2005. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. St Martins Pr, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Very Good+. First Edition: October 2005 on copyright page with full number line. Clean unfaded black boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 294 pgs. with index. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, with small (under 1") closed tear at top front flap fold. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. In 2002 a researcher for "The Harvard Crimson" came across a restricted archive labeled "Secret Court Files, 1920". What he uncovered was 500 pgs. of clandestine documents describing in detail an eighty-year-old episode in which Harvard University maliciously persecuted and harassed young men who were believed to be engaging in homosexual activity. It was a major scandal and one ofthe biggest cover-ups in Harvard's three and half centuries..

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Bookseller: Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 018146
Title: Harvard's Secret Court
Author: De Quille, Dan
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good+
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
ISBN 10: 0312322712
ISBN 13: 9780312322717
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2005
Keywords: HISTORY HARVARD UNIVERSITY EDUCATION HOMOSEXUALITY HOMOSEXUAL PERSECUTION CIVIL RIGHTS
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