Here is the American campus, not as it has

been thought to be, but as it has been

hidden from us all these years--passionate,

comic, confused, a place of Machiavellian

plots, millcnnarian dreams, and insistent

make-believe. It is the campus as a world

the same world as that which exists off the

campus.

John Burgess, who has seen Latin Amer-

ican revolution at first hand, returns to his

country to be plunged into tile middle of a

revolution, North American style. Though

Burgess can t quite understand what the

issues are, hc very quickly learns that

understanding the issues is not considered

a necessity before taking sides. He himself

has his side chosen for him. A leader of the

revolution calls him a CIA agent, and he

finds himself a central, though reluctant,

participant in events.

Those who want to know what happened

on American campuses during these last

years will learn from this book. It offers

an easy way to learn. It is a comic novel,

with the pace and atmosphere of a detective

story and a surprise ending.

Here, a distinguished teacher--one who

is familiar to thousands of his fellows over

the post-World War II decades; one who

has visited campuses from coast to coast

as Phi Beta Kappa lecturer--turns his

hand to fiction in an examination of truth

that brings to light some extraordinary

observations.