American Higher Education Transformed, 1940-2005: Documenting the National Discourse

by Wilson Smith

This long-awaited sequel to Richard Hofstadter and Wilson Smith's classic anthology American Higher Education: A Documentary History presents one hundred and seventy-two key edited documents that record the transformation of higher education over the past sixty years.

The volume includes such seminal documents as Vannevar Bush's 1945 report to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Science, the Endless Frontier; the U.S. Supreme Court...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801886716
• ISBN13: 9780801886713
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.2" x 10.2"