Unseasonable Truths: The Life of Robert Maynard Hutchins

by Harry S. Ashmore

Book Overview

A biography of America's preeminent educator who was active during the McCarthy era as founder of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316053961
• ISBN13: 9780316053969
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The best of the biographies.

The author does a fine job of describing the background and motivations of this important educator. The trials, triumphs and frustrations are all here. The book is a quick read in spite of its length. The Hutchins wit and grace are fully evoked.