Spotlight: A Little Rebellion Is a Good Thing by Duncan Clark

When David Pritchard is hired to teach political science at a remote women's college in 1969, he anticipates a quiet year before moving on to bigger things. However, it soon becomes apparent that all is not well at Traymore College. President Barton and his administration curtail basic academic freedoms, harass tenured professors, and impose tight constraints on students' personal lives. Appalled, David engages in intimate alliances with sympathetic faculty and several members of student leadership to stand up to the school's administration. Together, they aim to ignite the press and spark far-reaching legal action. But Barton will not go down without a fight.

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About the Author

Duncan L. Clarke is Professor Emeritus of International Relations and former Director of the United States Foreign Policy Field at American University’s School of International Service, Washington, D.C.  He was Visiting Professor of Politics at the University of California Santa Cruz and Professor of National Security at the National War College of the National Defense University. He has served in the intelligence community and authored numerous articles and five books on U.S. defense and foreign policy. Professor Clarke lived and taught in Washington, D.C. for many years before moving to California’s Monterey Peninsula.  He earned his BA at Clark University, JD at Cornell University, and PhD at the University of Virginia.  Clarke has just completed a novel, A Little Rebellion Is a Good Thing, about an uprising at a women’s college in rural Southwest Virginia in 1969-70 and has begun writing a second novel concerning a serial murderer on the Appalachian Trail. He is an avid hiker who has twice hiked the entire Appalachian Trail.