The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present Hardcover - 2006
by James Axtell
In 1902, Professor Woodrow Wilson steered a blueprint for remaking the too-cozy college into an intellectual powerhouse. "The Making of Princeton University" tells, for the first time, the story of how the university adapted and updated Wilson's blueprint to transform itself into the prestigious institution it is today.
From the rear cover
"How did a small men's college in a quiet town grow to become one of the world's great universities? James Axtell's insightful, comprehensive, and compelling account of the last century of Princeton explores this question through unique methods. The Making of Princeton University is different from the best of institutional histories. Axtell tells the story of Princeton in the round; not just the presidents and trustees, but faculty, students, staff, academics, social life, sports, artistic life, admissions, and alumni."--John Milton Cooper, University of Wisconsin
"I know of no recent piece of work like this in terms of its in-depth command of its material, its success in contextualizing content about one university, and its readability. A terrific accomplishment."--William Bowen, President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and former president of Princeton University
"A wonderful read. Anyone who reads this book, from well-informed insiders, who like myself have experienced nearly half of the story, to interested outsiders, will give the author the highest marks for meticulous scholarship and vigorous writing."--Robert Tignor, Princeton University
"The Making of Princeton University is the product of prodigious scholarship, graceful prose, and insight into many of the less appreciated corners of university life. Those who scorn traditional institutional history will heap praise on this book."--Roger Geiger, Pennsylvania State University
"Axtell forges a new genre. He is the first to have written an anthropologically informed history of a university as an intellectual center. This book is an exciting contribution to the history of higher education."--Bruce Leslie, SUNY College, Brockport, and Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
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- Title The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present
- Author James Axtell
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 688
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princenton, New Jersey
- Date 2006-04
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780691126869 / 0691126860
- Weight 2.45 lbs (1.11 kg)
- Dimensions 9.52 x 6.08 x 1.84 in (24.18 x 15.44 x 4.67 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New Jersey
- Library of Congress subjects Wilson, Woodrow
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005034088
- Dewey Decimal Code 378.749
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- Foreword, 07/01/2006, Page 45
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