From Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston to Lionel Trilling and
Lou Gehrig, Columbia University has been home to some of the most
important historians, scientists, critics, artists, physicians, and
social scientists of the twentieth century. (It can also boast a
hall-of-fame athlete.) In "Living Legacies at Columbia,"
contributors with close personal ties to their subjects capture
Columbia's rich intellectual history. Essays span the birth of
genetics and modern anthropology, constitutionalism from John Jay
to Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Virginia Apgar's test, Lou Gehrig's swing,
journalism education, black power, public health, the development
of Asian studies, the Great Books Movement, gender studies, human
rights, and numerous other realms of teaching and discovery. They
include Eric Foner on historian Richard Hoftstader, Isaac Levi and
Sidney Hook on John Dewey, David Rosand on art historian Meyer
Schapiro, John Hollander on critic Mark Van Doren, Donald Keene on
Asian studies, Jacques Barzun on history, Eric Kandel on geneticist
Thomas Hunt Morgan, and Rosalind Rosenberg on Franz Boas and his
three most famous pupils: Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Zora
Neale Hurston.
Much more than an institutional history, "Living Legacies"
captures the spirit of a great university through the stories of
gifted men and women who have worked, taught, and studied at
Columbia. It includes stories of struggle and breakthrough,
searching and discovery, tradition and transformation.
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