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Iconoclast : Abraham Flexner and a life in learning / Thomas Neville Bonner.
Van Pelt Library LB875.F583 B66 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bonner, Thomas Neville.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Flexner, Abraham, 1866-1959.
- Flexner, Abraham.
- Educators--United States--Biography.
- Educators.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 376 pages, 27 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- "Thanks to Thomas Bonner's Iconoclast, we finally have the biography Flexner deserves and readers seek." -- Journal of Higher Education
- Contents:
- "Our children will justify us"
- A university like no other
- Mr. Flexner's school
- Breaking free
- A legend is born
- Master of the survey
- A secure berth
- at last
- At the pinnacle
- A fall from Olympus
- Phoenix rising
- A last hurrah
- Final battles
- "I burn that I may be of use."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-351) and index.
- "The published writings of Abraham Flexner": pages 359-360.
- ISBN:
- 0801871247
- OCLC:
- 49225430
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