Robert M. Hutchins: Portrait of an Educator Hardcover - 1991

Chicago, Ilinois: University of Chicago Press, 1991. First Edition, !st Printing . Hardcover. New/New. Signed, placed and dated on the half title page as follows: "Mary Ann Dzuback/St. Louis November 25, 2002/"; not personalized to anyone. Number line in the work reads as follows: 00 99 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 91 5 4 3 2 1. Included with the book is a note from the author to this bookseller on Washington University in St. Louis notepad as follows: "11-24-02/Dear Mr. Lasseter:/Here is is-thank you for your interest/Mary Ann Dzuback/". Her signature is a scrawl, not a neatly written one. This critical biography was the first to focus on Hutchins' University of Chicago decades, and the author gives a full and fascinating account of this complex man. At the time Hutchins became President of the University of Chicago he was 30 years old, the youngest University president in the country. His most far reaching academic reform involved the undergraduate College at University of Chicago which was retooled into a novel pedagogical system built on Great Books, Socratic dialogue, comprehensive examinations and early entrance to college. 387 pages, including an index. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality Brodart cover. Clean, fresh, tight and bright! A very nice, author signed, copy; available for immediate shipment, carefully packed in a sturdy box.