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Nicholas Miraculous : the amazing career of the redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler /
To those who loved him, like Teddy Roosevelt, he was ""Nicholas Miraculous, "" the fabled educator who had a hand in everything; to those who did not, like novelist Upton Sinclair, he was ""the intellectual leader of the American plutocracy, "" a champion of &...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the sage
- Flying the Union Jack
- "An indubitable genius"
- A university is born
- Educator
- Twelfth president
- "Great personalities make great universities"
- An old shoe
- Teddy Roosevelt and a horse called Nicoletta
- "Dear Tessie"
- Mr. Butler's asylum
- At home--and away
- "Pick Nick for a picnic in November"
- "Kid" Butler, the Columbia Catamount, vs. "Wild Bill" Borah, the Boise Bearcat
- "Jastrow is, I am sorry to say, a Hebrew"
- Path to peace
- Perils of bolshevism, promises of fascism
- The fund raiser
- "Morningside's miracle"
- Resignation, retirements, and death
- Epilogue : the disappearance.