Beginning with a high schooler mesmerized by a stay on the Navajo and Hopi reservations and running through the founding of a university department and the aftermath of a decision to forego permanent academic affiliations, Richard Price’s story is told with humour and insight into the workings of academic politics from the 1960s to the present.

Beginning with a high schooler mesmerized by a stay on the Navajo and Hopi reservations and running through the founding of a university department and the aftermath of a decision to forego permanent academic affiliations, Richard Price’s story is told with humour and insight into the workings of academic politics from the 1960s to the present.