Robert M. Hutchins: Portrait of an Educator (Centennial Publications of The University of Chicago Press)
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Book
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ISBN 10
0226177106
ISBN 13
9780226177106
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Publication Year
1991
Publisher
University of Chicago Press, United States
Pages
404
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As president of the University of Chicago from 1929 to 1951, Robert Maynard Hutchins came to be one of the most prominent and controversial figures in American higher education. To this day, his vision of what the university should be has given shape to twentieth-century debates over the content and function of education in the United States. In her critical biography, the first to focus on Hutchins' University of Chicago decades, Mary Ann Dzuback gives a full and fascinating account of this complex man—his development, his achievements and failures, and finally, his legacy.
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