. Hardcover, very good condition, w. v. ltly slanted sp. Ltly tanned p. edges. Text block is v. ltly wavy. Clean, tight, unmarked. Dj very good, ltly rubbed, lt marks.

. Hardcover, very good condition, w. v. ltly slanted sp. Ltly tanned p. edges. Text block is v. ltly wavy. Clean, tight, unmarked. Dj very good, ltly rubbed, lt marks.

0472106929. First printing. Book-plate on front free endpaper, else fine in a fine dust jacket.

0472106929. First printing. Book-plate on front free endpaper, else fine in a fine dust jacket.

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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [8], 186, [6] p. Index. Signed by author.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [8], 186, [6] p. Index. Signed by author. Inscribed on fep to David Shilper! James Oliver Freedman (September 21, 1935 March 21, 2006) was an American educator and academic administrator. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he served briefly as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School before becoming the sixteenth president of the University of Iowa from 1982 to 1987, and then the fifteenth president of Dartmouth College, from 1987 to 1998. David K. Shipler (born December 3, 1942) is an American author who won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction in 1987 for Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. He also wrote the book The Working Poor: Invisible in America. He is a former foreign correspondent of The New York Times. He wrote the best-seller Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams, which was updated in 1989. The book won the Overseas Press Club Award in 1983 as the best book that year on foreign affairs. With refreshing eloquence, James O. Freedman sets down the American ideals that have informed his life as an intellectual, a law professor, and a college and university president. He examines the content and character of liberal education, discusses the importance of letters and learning in forming his own life and values, and explores how the lessons and the habits of mind instilled by a liberal education can give direction and meaning to one's life. He offers a stirring defense of affirmative action in higher education. And he describes how, in the midst of undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, liberal education helped him in that most human of desires-the yearning to make order and sense out of his experience. Part intellectual biography and part examination of the world of higher education, Idealism and Liberal Education is a quintessentially American book, animated by a confidence that reason, knowledge, idealism, and the better angels of our natures will further human progress.