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When Men Were the Only Models We Had My Teachers Fadiman, Barzun, Trilling Carolyn G. Heilbrun "Heilbrun's engaging memoir evokes a bygone era of intellectual life, when clarity of language and exacting prose marked lively critical conversations on politics, society, and literature."--Library Journal When Men Were the Only Models We Had is a loving, admiring, but stringent account of youthful enthusiasms, of the romance of ideas, of the intellectual brilliance of three unwitting mentors, and of the hopelessness of female ambition in the years before the feminist movement of the last three decades of the last century. And it is, in the end, a book that offers splendid proof that the models we once had are no longer the only ones before us. Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Avalon Professor in the Humanities Emerita, taught at Columbia for 33 years. She is the author numerous books, including Toward a Recognition of Androgyny, Writing a Woman's Life, and The Last Gift of Time. As Amanda Cross, she is author of twelve best-selling novels featuring the detective Kate Fansler. Personal Takes 2001 168 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ISBN 978-0-8122-3632-3 Cloth $32.50t £21.50 World Rights Women's/Gender Studies, Education, Literature Short copy: "A study of the influences of Clifton Fadiman, Lionel Trilling, and Jacques Barzun on Heilbrun's own literary development, but the book is far broader than that--really, a history of Columbia University in the turmoil of the sixties and beyond. And this isn't for women only!"--Maxine Kumin, Ploughshares