Creating the College Man: American Mass Magazines and Middle-Class Manhood, 1890a 1915

by Daniel A. Clark

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 barrage of new challenges, among them a stultifying bureaucracy and growing competition in the workplace from an influx of immigrants and women. At this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299235343
• ISBN13: 9780299235345
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 4.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"