The book's 144 essays and excerpts from other works reach back to the 1945-52 eara of student life and sourrounding events, combined in the anothology's 1244 pages, which are carefully cross-referenced, documented with archival resources and clippings from student newspapers, thoroughly indexed, and connected by numerous pictorial albums. The founding of the U.S. National Student Associqtion (NSA) in September of 1947 was shaped by the immediate concerns and world view of the "GI Bill Generation" of American students, returning from a world at war to build a world at peace. The more than 90 living authors of this book, all of whom are of that generation, tell about NSA's formation and first five years. They also provide a prologue reaching back into the 1930s and an epilogue going forward to the sixties and beyond. Read Less