Education and Exclusion
Sheldon Rothblatt, 13 February 1992
Hutchins’ University: A Memoir of the University of Chicago 1929-1950
by William McNeill.
Chicago, 194 pp., $24.95, October 1991,0 226 56170 4 Show More
by William McNeill.
Chicago, 194 pp., $24.95, October 1991,
Robert M. Hutchins: Portrait of an Educator
by Mary AnnDzuback.
Chicago, 387 pp., $24.95, November 1991,0 226 17710 6 Show More
by Mary AnnDzuback.
Chicago, 387 pp., $24.95, November 1991,
Jews in the American Academy 1900-1940: The Dynamics of Intellectual Assimilation
by Susanne Klingenstein.
Yale, 248 pp., £22.50, November 1991,0 300 04941 2 Show More
by Susanne Klingenstein.
Yale, 248 pp., £22.50, November 1991,
“... Women were attracted to Hutchins, but his marriages were unsuccessful, particularly the first. Dzuback, a younger scholar educated at Columbia University, provides more detail than a memoir can, but likewise conveys a sense of the combative, unsettled yet stimulating environment of Chicago in the Thirties and Forties. Hutchins could not create that ... ”
