Academic Gamesmanship

<p><strong><em>Academic Gamesmanship</em> by Pierre L. van den Berghe</strong></p><p>The owner of a newly earned Ph.D. accepts a university faculty position hoping to advance based on merit. Soon enough however the new Ph.D. learns that academic success depends more on strategic maneuvering than pure ability. Today gamesmanship is the Ph.D.'s surest means of getting to the top. <em>Academic Gamesmanship</em> is to the Ph.D. what <em>The Peter Principle</em> is to the business executive: a brilliant-and often hilarious-guide to the strategies for success. Its exposé of academic pretentiousness and pomposity is unsurpassed. Yet behind the wit lies the insight of a noted sociologist. Dr. van den Berghe weighs the in-fighting credit-stealing and buck-passing used in jockeying for academic power. Most significantly he unmasks the negligibility of so much scholarly striving and aspiration.</p>