Gary Smith Slaughter

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Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education

As colleges and universities become more entrepreneurial in a post-industrial economy, they focus on knowledge less as a public good than as a commodity to be capitalized on in profit-oriented activities. In Academic Capitalism and the New Economy, higher education scholars Sheila Slaughter and Gar...

Cottonwood Fall

Cottonwood Fall is the sequel to Gary Slaughter's critically acclaimed Cottonwood Summer! The author has closely crafted small-town life on the WW II home front into another hilarious and heart-rending tour de force. The fall adventures of Danny and Jase, the Cottonwood Summer heroes, include run-in...

Cottonwood Spring

Cottonwood Spring, the fourth novel in the Cottonwood series, is an entertaining, richly-detailed reminiscence of home-front America during the spring of 1945. The last days of World War II have a profound effect on America as witnessed by the citizens of Riverton, Michigan, the setting of this fast...

Cottonwood Summer

When the army builds a German prisoner of war camp on the outskirts of a small Michigan town, citizens are outraged. Adding to the angst, two women assist a pair of POWs to escape -- and are tried for treason. History, fiction, and humor blend into a heart-warming story of life on the 1944 home fro...

Cottonwood Winter: A Christmas Story

Cottonwood Winter: A Christmas Story is the sequel to the author's critically acclaimed Cottonwood Fall, finalist for the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award for Popular Fiction. Set in a Michigan small town during the winter of 1944, this heartwarming story interweaves historic events on the European war ...

Cottonwood Summer '45

Cottonwood Summer '45, the latest novel in the Cottonwood series, continues the tradition of delivering an entertaining, richly-detailed reminiscence of home-front America during the summer of 1945, as well as details of the closing events of World War II. The last days of the war have a profound ef...