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Nicholas Miraculous - The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler (Paperback)
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Nicholas Miraculous - The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler (Paperback)
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To those who loved him, like Teddy Roosevelt, he was "Nicholas
Miraculous," the fabled educator who had a hand in everything; to
those who did not, like Upton Sinclair, he was "the intellectual
leader of the American plutocracy," a champion of "false and cruel
ideals." Ezra Pound branded him "one of the more loathsome figures"
of the age. Whether celebrated or despised, Nicholas Murray Butler
(1862-1947) was undeniably an irresistible force who helped shape
American history. With wit and irony, Michael Rosenthal traces
Butler's rise to prominence as president of Columbia University,
which he presided over for forty-four years and developed into one
of the world's most distinguished institutions of research and
teaching. Butler also won the Nobel Peace Prize and headed both the
Carnegie Endowment and the American Academy of Arts and Letters,
among innumerable other organizations. In 1920, he sought the
Republican nomination for president, managing to garner more votes
on the first ballot than the eventual winner, Warren Harding.
Rosenthal's richly detailed, elegantly crafted narrative captures
the mania and genius that propelled Butler to these extraordinary
achievements and more. Thick with social, cultural, and political
history, Nicholas Miraculous recreates Butler's prodigious career
and the dynamic age that nourished him.
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