Eliminating Professors

“This account has the chill of graveyard truth. I’ve often read about the ideal of a fearless objectivity in the social sciences, but I’ve rarely experienced it as forcefully as in this book.” – James R. Kelly, Fordham University

“The book’s chapters – highly readable, personal, engaging, and illuminative – alternate between a suspenseful narrative of Dr. Westhues’s own case winding its tortured and exasperating through an appeal, and the ‘how-to’ chapters, which are written, this reader presumes, with an intensely ironic, but tellingly effective voice ... satiric intensity that chills the blood.” – David W. Leslie, in The Journal of Higher Education

“Although intended as a bitter satire, Dr. Westhues gives a remarkably perceptive account of the techniques used for getting rid of unwelcome academics. Of course, it can also be read by those who are targeted, and their supporters, as a primer on what is likely to happen and how best to oppose it.” – Brian Martin in Campus Review (Australia)

“Well-written case study and an interesting, informative and passionate look into the darker side of ideological correctness and intellectual weakness within academe.” – William Zwerman in Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology

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