Book cover for The Harvard Century: The Making of a University to a Nation by Richard Norton Smith

The Harvard Century

The Making of a University to a Nation

1998 Released
408 Pages
6-9 Hours
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Harvard University PressISBN 9780674372955

The Harvard Century tells the story of how Harvard, America's oldest and foremost institution of higher learning, has become synonymous with the nation, their goals and standards reflecting each other, each setting the other's agenda. It is also a colorful and intimate narrative of the individual achievements of its leaders and of the intense power struggles that have shaped Harvard as it pioneered in setting the priorities that have served as exemplars for the nation's educational establishment.

Richard Norton Smith

Director of five presidential libraries, a familiar face to viewers of C-Span and the PBS News Hour, Richard Norton Smith is the author of, among other works, Thomas E. Dewey and His Times, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation; and On His Own Terms; A Life of Nelson Rockefeller.

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