Synopses & Reviews
At age 28, he was dean of Yale Law School; at 30, president of the University of Chicago. By his mid-thirties, Robert Maynard Hutchins was an eminent figure in the world of educational innovation and liberal politics. And when he was 75, he told a friend, "I should have died at 35."
Milton Mayer, Hutchins's colleague, and friend, gives an intimate picture of the remarkably outstanding, and fallible, man who participated in many of this century's most important social and political controversies. He captures the energy and intellectual fervor Hutchins could transmit to others, and which the man brought to the fields of law, politics, civil rights, and public affairs.
Rich in detail and anecdote, this memoir vividly brings to life both a man and an age.
Synopsis
"Mayer's memoir is by far the most exciting Hutchins book ever. His style, wit, and passionand his insightput it into a class by itself."Studs Terkel
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 514-535) and index.
About the Author
Milton Mayer (1908-1986) was an educator, journalist, and editor who worked with Robert Hutchins at the University of Chicago. A prolific writer, among his numerous works are What Can a Man Do? (1964) and If Men Were Angels (1972). John H. Hicks was Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst until his retirement in 1986. Studs Terkel is a journalist and author of several best-selling oral histories. He was a student at the University of Chicago when Robert Hutchins was president.