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Robert Maynard Hutchins
At age 28, he was dean of Yale Law School; at 30, president of the University of Chicago. By his mid-thirties, Robert Maynard Hutchins was an eminent figure in the world of educational innovation and liberal politics. And when he was 75, he told a friend, "I should have died at 35." Milton Mayer, Hutchins's colleague, and friend, gives an intimate picture of the remarkably outstanding, and fallible, man who participated in many of this century's most important social and political controversies. He captures the energy and intellectual fervor Hutchins could transmit to others, and which the man brought to the fields of law, politics, civil rights, and public affairs. Rich in detail and anecdote, this memoir vividly brings to life both a man and an age. At age 28, he was dean of Yale Law School; at 30, president of the University of Chicago. By his mid-thirties, Robert Maynard Hutchins was an eminent figure in the world of educational innovation and liberal politics. And when he was 75, he told a friend,
Unseasonable Truths
"Precociousl brilliant and endowed with the will, energy, and presence to promote his convictions, Robert Maynard Hutchins was one of the major voices of the twentieth century. In the course of his long career as legal scholar, political philosopher, educational reformer, and civil libertarian, he became the most celebrated--and most controversial--intellectual of his era."--Cover.
