Wight Martindale’s Quixote: An Appreciation: Don Quixote Goes to College: From the Trading Floor to the Classroom, A Memoir on Education, by Wight Martindale Jr., privately printed, 2013, $34.69 hardbound

Wight Martindales Quixote: An Appreciation Peter Wood Published online: 25 January 2014# Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Wight Martindale is a long-time member of the National Association of Scholars who has had an especially unusual career: business journalist, Wall Street bond salesman, mid-life Ph.D. in English, chronicler of urban basketball, and a Great Books college teacher. [...]I dont intend to offer a measured account of the memoirs strengths and weaknesses. Wighty devotes six chapters to Cervantes and Shakespeare that certainly reflect twenty years of teaching them to undergraduates, but much of the charm of his literary exegesis is that it flows from the sensibility with which he unpacks credit default swaps, subprime lending, and speculation in off-balance sheet bank subsidiaries.