Radical Visions: Stringfellow Barr, Scott Buchanan, and Their Efforts on Behalf of Education and Politics in the Twentieth Century

by Charles Alexander Nelson

Find a college teacher prepared to risk his career because he is convinced that undergraduate elective curricula must be abandoned and ready to lay out a detailed remedy. Add a partner in full agreement, to share the risk. That is the improbable story of Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan and their 1937 creation, at St. John's College of an all-required four-year curriculum based on the great books. Then add their shared convictions in attacking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897898044
• ISBN13: 9780897898041
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"