Engell (English and comparative literature, Harvard U.) and English literature scholar Dangerfield, shared the Gold Medal Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Here they examine how a new and growing culture of money both shapes and distorts higher education. The rich have always played an inordinate role in higher education, they admit, but now the institutions are becoming a means to a financial rather than a cultural end. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)