When the body of a controversial feminist professor is found near a fraternity lodge in a sleepy Ohio village dominated by a small but prestigious liberal-arts school, everyone is stunned. But when more murders follow, we realize this serial killer wants more than a body count: s/he wants to kill the college. As the story develops--alternately narrated by the campus security guard who discovered the first body and the college's deliciously pretentious president--it soon becomes clear that the killer may succeed.

Set in the Philippines during the chaos of World War II and the decadent twilight of the Marcos era forty years later, MacArthur's Ghost is a complex and moving tale of war and revolution, victory and defeat, promise and betrayal.

An alumnus of Kenyon College as well as a faculty member, Kluge presents a knowledgeable examination of the dynamics, character, traditions, tensions, and pretensions of the small, private, and costly school. Famous teachers include John Crowe Ransom, and famous students include E.L. Doctorow."e;I love islands. Micronesia — Saipan, Palau, Pohnpei — is full of them. Gambier, Ohio is another kind of island, a small, surrounded place where I live and teach. My alma mater, my current employer. If you live in a place, you write about it. Alma Mater is a loving, scathing, funny account of a year in the life of Kenyon College. No names have been changed. And I put myself in the way of as much experience as I could bear: trustees, hiring searches, fraternity life, dormitory grotesquerie, departmental meetings — I even moved back into the same dorm I'd occupied as a college freshman in 1960-61. For that alone I deserve Nobel Prize consideration."e;

When the body of a controversial feminist professor is found near a fraternity lodge in a sleepy Ohio village dominated by a small but prestigious liberal-arts school, everyone is stunned. But when more murders follow, we realize this serial killer wants more than a body count: s/he wants to kill the college. As the story develops--alternately narrated by the campus security guard who discovered the first body and the college's deliciously pretentious president--it soon becomes clear that the killer may succeed.

Set in the Philippines during the chaos of World War II and the decadent twilight of the Marcos era forty years later, MacArthur's Ghost is a complex and moving tale of war and revolution, victory and defeat, promise and betrayal.

An alumnus of Kenyon College as well as a faculty member, Kluge presents a knowledgeable examination of the dynamics, character, traditions, tensions, and pretensions of the small, private, and costly school. Famous teachers include John Crowe Ransom, and famous students include E.L. Doctorow."e;I love islands. Micronesia — Saipan, Palau, Pohnpei — is full of them. Gambier, Ohio is another kind of island, a small, surrounded place where I live and teach. My alma mater, my current employer. If you live in a place, you write about it. Alma Mater is a loving, scathing, funny account of a year in the life of Kenyon College. No names have been changed. And I put myself in the way of as much experience as I could bear: trustees, hiring searches, fraternity life, dormitory grotesquerie, departmental meetings — I even moved back into the same dorm I'd occupied as a college freshman in 1960-61. For that alone I deserve Nobel Prize consideration."e;