Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America's University

by Phyllis Keller and Morton Keller

Book Overview

Making Harvard Modern is a candid, richly detailed portrait of America's most prominent university from 1933 to the present: seven decades of dramatic change. Early twentieth century Harvard was the country's oldest and richest university, but not necessarily its outstanding one. By the century's end it was widely regarded as the nation's, and the world's, leading institution of higher education. With verve, humor, and insight, Morton and Phyllis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195144570
• ISBN13: 9780195144574
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.5" x 9.6"