Levicoff's books

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  1. Guest

    Guest Guest

    Dr. Levicoff's Name It and Frame It, has been referenced numerous times on this board. Some may be surprised to learn he has authored a few other interesting books. See here.
     
  2. jimnagrom

    jimnagrom New Member

    Is he still driving a truck?
     
  3. Steve Levicoff

    Steve Levicoff Well-Known Member

    Re: Re: Levicoff's books

    Wow . . . I never knew I had so many 5-star ratings. (People will do anything to sell/dump a used book.) :D

    Yepper, I am still a trucker, which continues to be an ongoing adventure (and, quite frankly, a lot more fun than teaching or writing books).
     
  4. Kit

    Kit New Member

    Re: Re: Re: Levicoff's books

    Not to impune your work in any way but all the 5-stars were ratings for the Amazon Marketplace (used book) sellers, not for the actual books themselves. It works sort of like the ratings on E-bay, buyers rate the service they received from sellers so future buyers can check for positive or negative feedback before buying from any given used book seller.

    Kit
     
  5. jimnagrom

    jimnagrom New Member

    Re: Re: Re: Levicoff's books

    Saw a movie with the wife recently with Charlese Theron as the evil femme fatal - about a bunch of truckers advised by an ex-con who dress up as Santa Claus's to rob an indian reservation casino. At one point the eveil trucker lead goives an impassioned blurb about the "millions of miles of hard road" he's driven - and how he hates it, but he can't quit because the company would just find someone else.

    Any truckers like that?
     
  6. Steve Levicoff

    Steve Levicoff Well-Known Member

    In trucking, as in any other field (or even as on degreeinfo.com, where whiners kvetch about their respective problems with various schools), there will always be a crowd that is happiest when it's bitching (a term I use as a gender-inclusive verb rather than a noun).

    I am not part of that crowd. To me trucking is like driving a very comfortable, well-equipped camper around the country - one that happens to have a really, really big box on the back of it. It is also a diverse cultural microcosm far more interesting than any academic "ivory tower" - the entertainment alone is far better than academe any day, which may explain the notion that I have met several former college professors that actually gave up tenure to become truckers.
     
  7. plcscott

    plcscott New Member

    Would it go something like this?

    Those that can do, those that can't teach, those that can't teach drive a truck?

    Just kidding, I never thought much of the saying. A lot of the teachers I have had have done well before teaching.
     
  8. Guest

    Guest Guest

    Re: Re: Levicoff's books

    I believe it was Fosdick who said something to the affect that he learned more about life from sitting around listening to those sitting outside general stores than in the classrom, or something like that.

    I think this may apply to truckers. When I was in jr. college, my friends and I used to go to the truck stop outside of Fulton, MS on Hwy. 78, and had a blast listening to the truckers and their philosophy on life.
     
  9. jimnagrom

    jimnagrom New Member

    Re: Re: Levicoff's books

    ??? Is this one of the famous "urbane legends"? Granted Academia can be very petty - but why give up tenure voluntarily to drive a truck?
     
  10. uncle janko

    uncle janko member

    The Swami of Riverside Drive A-Storyin'

    Levicoff is an urbane legend.

    The breathtakingly pompous and self absorbed Dr Harry Emerson Fosdick, to whom omission of his title was but slightly preferable to fell death itself, style maven for too many generations of mainline protestant princes of the pulpit (apologies to the shade of S.T. Anagnostopoulos for the alliteration), 'lowin' as heow he useta set round the genrul store spittin' baccy and pickin' up folk wisdom--now that, mes chuckwallas, is an urban legend even if, no, especially if it came directly from the honeyed lips of the cracker-barrel philosophe of Morningside Heights himself.
     
  11. Guest

    Guest Guest

    Re: The Swami of Riverside Drive A-Storyin'

    Very entertaining post. I think I have the book with the quote in it. I will look.
     

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