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Nicholas Miraculous
The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler
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Michael Rosenthal
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Preface by:
Patricia O’Toole
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English
Published/Copyright:
2015
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An engrossing biography of a major American figure who skirmished with many of the twentieth-century’s leading philanthropists, statesmen, and educators.
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Michael Rosenthal was associate dean of Columbia College for seventeen years, later becoming, as a member of the English Department, the first holder of the Roberta and William Campbell Professorship of the Humanities at Columbia University. His books include Virginia Woolf and The Character Factory: Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts and the Imperatives of Empire.
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Contents
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Foreword
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Introduction: The Sage
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1. Flying the Union Jack
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2. “An Indubitable Genius”
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3. A University Is Born
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4. Educator
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5. The Twelfth President
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6. “Great Personalities Make Great Universities”
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7. An Old Shoe
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8. Teddy Roosevelt and a Horse Called Nicoletta
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9. “Dear Tessie”
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10. “Mr. Butler’s Asylum”
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11. At Home— and Away
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12. “Pick Nick for a Picnic in November”
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13. “Kid” Butler, the Columbia Catamount, vs. “Wild Bill” Borah, the Boise Bearcat
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14. “Jastrow Is, I’m Sorry to Say, a Hebrew”
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15. The Path to Peace
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16. Perils of Bolshevism, Promises of Fascism
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17. The Fund- raiser
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18. “Morningside’s Miracle”
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19. Resignation, Retirements, and Death
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Epilogue: The Disappearance
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Acknowledgments
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Index
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June 9, 2015
eBook ISBN:
9780231539524
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544
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Professional and scholarly;
