Lanterna Rally

Author: Walter Donway

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Published: 2021-09-15

Total Pages: 348

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Impassioned, intellectual, and intense All who see the university as the battleground for our future will live this novel page by page A literary philosophical thriller By Walter Donway Returning to his famous Ivy League alma mater after three years in the Navy, Damian Kossak finds a university trashing its mission and standards. Crossing the college green, he barely avoids a violent encounter with students enforcing agreement with "climate change." His father, the dean of the college, is being "brought up on charges" of interfering with the "diversity" admissions machine. Soon, Damian and a few allies--his father, his former philosophy professor, his Navy Seal buddy, and a wildly sexually uninhibited Israeli girl--are battling on every front: Bullying by students. Admissions quotas. Intimidation of politically incorrect faculty members. Jettisoning the study of Western civilization and achievements. New courses in "victimology." Things quickly become dangerous The university Damian still revered just three years ago is collapsing into dogmas of postmodernist philosophy, political correctness, and righteous violence against dissent. Faced with Damian, his father, and his other allies, the opposition turns to destroying reputations, protests to silence politically incorrect speakers, and, finally, an assassination attempt. But...it is still 'homecoming' Amidst it all, Damian's passion for philosophy, for his faculty mentor, Bill Dyson, and for what the university has meant to him, make his homecoming exciting. And so, too, does Jessica, the orphaned Israeli girl with the straight-A record, who struggles to understand where passion ends, and promiscuity begins. Damian's new buddy, the Navy Seal Jules--even as he saves the day for a courageous woman who comes to try to speak on campus--shocks Damian with his affair with the University's VP for diversity. Individuals with true passions, however seemingly in conflict, see the importance of what they share. It is a theme of Retaking College Hill" that lifts our spirit, promises a better future, even amidst seemingly irreconcilable, bitter conflicts. The violence takes its tragic toll for Damian in a wild climactic motorcycle gang attack. But other battles are won. One victory is the answer to this question: Should America's great entrepreneurs and other creators of wealth, under sniper attack by the leftist professoriate, keep signing big checks for the university and leaving the ideas to the professors? Deliverance For Damian and his allies in Retaking College Hill to pose that question to the beautiful, wealthy daughter descended from the University's founder promises ultimate "deliverance." It is a crucial insight, and step, in reclaiming the University's essential and enduring mission from the professoriate of Postmodernism and students who all-too-often have become their tools. Retaking College Hill is about what might and ought to happen today on America's campuses. Literary and philosophical in its style and depth of ideas, it is also a thriller and a moving romance The drama of Retaking College Hill is unfolding today on American campuses. It is the story of today's heroes, their ideas and loves, and the personal price they pay. It is an honest look at your college, today--or at your alma mater. Discovering the novel Click on the "Buy now" button at the top of this page.