Making Harvard Modern
Subtitle: The Rise of America's University
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 8, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780195144574
First sentence: The Harvard that James Bryant Conant inherited when he became president in 1933 was the creation of his Boston Brahmin predecessors Charles W. Eliot (1867-1908) and Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1908-33).
Description: "Making Harvard Modern is a portrait of America's most prominent university from 1933 to the present: seven decades of dramatic change. Early-twentieth-century Harvard was the country's oldest and richest university, but not necessarily its outstanding one. By the century's end it was widely regarded as the nation's, and the world's, leading institution of higher education.

With verve, humor, and insight, Morton and Phyllis Keller tell the story of that rise: a tale of compelling personalities, notable achievement, and no-less-notable academic pratfalls. Their book is based on rich and revealing archival materials, interviews, and personal experience."--BOOK JACKET.