Glimpses of the Harvard Past

by Oscar Handlin, Donald Harnish Fleming, Bernard Bailyn

Book Overview

This happy combination of literary essay and exceptionally well-written history, providing insights into a past still important in the twentieth century, will quickly take an honored place on the shelves of Harvardiana. Bernard Bailyn writes on the origins of Harvard and the foundations of Harvard's persistent character, structure, and style of governance, and contributes another chapter on the unhappy ending to the administration of the beloved President...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674354435
• ISBN13: 9780674354432
• Release Date: February 1986
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.7"