In this satirical take on the goings on in the halls of academia, Christian private-college style, Ricapito tells the story of Bert Russo, a naive professor who learns the hard way that making waves (especially political ones) can lead to dire consequences. In the end, having exposed the hypocrisy and two-faced actions of his colleagues and having lost both his wife and job, Bert is finally at peace with himself.

Joseph V. Ricapito was born in Giovinazzo, Bari, Italy in 1933. He immigrated with his family to Brooklyn, New York. He has a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Los Angeles. He has written three books on Cervantes's work, the most recent one on Don Quijote. Professor Ricapito is also a published poet (his first book of poems, Florentine Streets and Other Poems, was published by Bordighera. He has been knighted by the governments of the Republic of Italy and the government of Spain. He is married and has two children and two grandchildren, and lives with his wife of 54 years in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.