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In September 2000 Bill Carey released his first book Fortunes, Fiddles, and Fried Chicken: A Business History of Nashville. It quickly became a local bestseller, reminding people of the fascinating stories behind the companies and industries that put Nashville on the map -- such as Genesco, the National Life and Accident Insurance Co., Kentucky Fried Chicken, and the country music industry. The Tennessee Library Association and Tennessee Historical Commission named the book History Book of the Year. "I was amazed with how much Bill Carey uncovered that even I didn't know," former Tennessee governor Ned McWherter said upon reading it. Now Carey has turned his attention to the most revered institution in Nashville, Vanderbilt University. And, much like with his first book, the author proves there are fascinating stories behind everything -- anecdotes about chancellors and students, buildings and campus plans, schemes that succeeded, and ideas that failed. Most of these tales are long forgotten. There is, of course, much, much more. The bishop who went from being a fiery Confederate to being a close friend of Cornelius Vanderbilt. The story of how Vanderbilt introduced the South to a new sport called football, built the first football stadium in the region, and dominated the game for half a century. The professor who was fired for being a socialist, and the graduate student who was expelled for being a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. The uneasy relationship between Vanderbilt and the literary movement that is most affiliated with it. The series of events that changed Vanderbilt from an institution that banned African Americans in the early 1960s to the one that integrated Southeastern Conference sports a few years later. The amusing anecdotes that came out of Vanderbilt's "protest period" in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Descriptions of what it was like to be a student on campus at different times in the school's history: 1879, 1901, 1933, 1955, 1968, 1984, and 1993. Book jacket.