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Creating the college man : American mass magazines and middle-class manhood, 1890-1915 /
How did a college education become so vital to American notions of professional and personal advancement? Reared on the ideal of the self-made man, American men had long rejected the need for college. But in the early twentieth century this ideal began to change as white men born in the U.S. faced a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Studies in American thought and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: Piggy Goes to Harvard: Mass Magazines, Masculinity, and College Education for the Corporate Middle Class; 1. The Crisis of the Clerks: Magazines, Masculine Success, and the Ideal Businessman in Transition; 2. The College Curriculum and Business: Reconceptualizing the Pathways to Power in a Corporate World; 3. Athletes and Frats, Romance and Rowdies: Reimagining the Collegiate Extracurricular Experience; 4. Horatio Alger Goes to College: College, Corporate America, and the Reconfiguration of the Self-Made Ideal.
- 5. From Campus Hero to Corporate Professional: Selling the Full Vision of the College ExperienceConclusion: College and the Culture of Aspiration; Notes; Index.