The History Man: A NovelHumorous and biting satire of British university life in the 1960s and 1970s, where safely positioned bourgeois radicals reign. Howard Kirk is the trendiest of radical tutors at a fashionable university. Timid Vice-Chancellors pale before his threats of disruption. Reactionary colleagues are crushed beneath his merciless Marxist logic. Woman are drawn by his promiscuity. A self-appointed revolutionary hero, Howard always comes out on top. |
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