Privilege and Merit at Yale

To the Editor:
Readers can judge for themselves whether Michael Kazin ("New Ivy League, Same Old Elitism," September 11) is correct that our books describe "the changes that took place during the ’60s in almost entirely rosy and self-congratulatory terms" and that we are "hardly the only scholars too besotted with ‘transition’ for their own good." But readers may well wish to know about what our books actually set out to accomplish. More...