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Roses from the Ashes: Breakup and Rebirth in Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Athletics

Glenn T. Seaborg with Ray Colvig, with foreward by Clark Kerr, 2000, 422 pp, ISBN 0-87772-394-X, $25

Roses from the Ashes is the story behind the rise and fall of college sports on the Pacific Coast. It was an era of colorful characters--Pappy Waldorf, Red Sanders, Johnny O and the McKeever boys--and clashing values. Glenn Seaborg had an inside view of it all. Here's the true story of the scandals that tore the Pacific Coast Conference apart--and the birth of the Pac-10--the Conference of Champions.

Law at Berkeley: The History of Boalt Hall, Sandra P. Epstein, 1997, 365pp, $27.95, ISBN 0-87772-375-3 Boalt Hall is a unique institution in the state of California, at the University of California, and in the history of American legal education. This history of law at Berkeley begins with the first course in Roman law in 1881 and concludes with the current challenges facing Boalt Hall as a new century approaches.

Angus E. Taylor, 2000, 227 pages, ISBN 0-87772-393-1, Book #3931, $21.95

Over a long and distinguished career at the University of California, Angus Ellis Taylor taught mathematics at UCLA, was vice president for academic affairs under three presidents, and served as chancellor of the university's Santa Cruz campus. A brilliant scholar and teacher, Taylor was also a gifted administrator. His story, told warmly and well here, involves some of the most difficult and tumultuous years in the life of a great university.

Golden Gate Metropolis: Perspectives on Bay Area History, Charles Wollenberg, 1985, 380pp, ISBN 0-87772-301-X, $14.95 "Here at last in a single volume is the interwoven story of the San Francisco Bay region . . . authoritative, readable, compact, the first wide-angle portrait of a vast and vigorous urban substate."--Richard Reinhardt, The California Historical Society

This unique memoir is a fascinating, fine-grained recollection of 30 momentous months from 1958-60. Seaborg recalls his chancellorship as an academic Camelot--a Rose Bowl victory, an NCAA basketball championship, two Nobel prizewinners, and Berkeley ranked as the finest University in the nation.