Experience Is the Angled Road

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>While </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Experience Is the Angled Road: Memoir of an Academic</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is about leadership it is not a handbook on how to be a leader.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>When her parents moved from New York City to a small town in Alabama R. Barbara Gitenstein knew that she just did not fit. After leaving for boarding school in the eighth grade she discovered that it was more than being Jewish and a Yankee that made her an oddity. She was an intellectual; she loved classical music.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Before entering academe Gitenstein learned to lead from the periphery benefitting from exceptional and surprising mentors. She survived painful loss and life-changing challenges. In her memoir R. Barbara Gitenstein captures the shock and the humor she faced when confronting the obstacles of being the only whatever in the room (woman Jew Southerner liberal).</span></p>