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Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler

Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler

Rosenthal, Michael
O'Toole, Patricia

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0231174217
ISBN13: 9780231174213
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Jun 9 2015
Pages: 544
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

To those who loved him, like Teddy Roosevelt, he was Nicholas Miraculous, the fabled educator who had a hand in everything; to those who did not, like Upton Sinclair, he was the intellectual leader of the American plutocracy, a champion of false and cruel ideals. Ezra Pound branded him one of the more loathsome figures of the age. Whether celebrated or despised, Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) was undeniably an irresistible force who helped shape American history.

With wit and irony, Michael Rosenthal traces Butler's rise to prominence as president of Columbia University, which he presided over for forty-four years and developed into one of the world's most distinguished institutions of research and teaching. Butler also won the Nobel Peace Prize and headed both the Carnegie Endowment and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among innumerable other organizations. In 1920, he sought the Republican nomination for president, managing to garner more votes on the first ballot than the eventual winner, Warren Harding. Rosenthal's richly detailed, elegantly crafted narrative captures the mania and genius that propelled Butler to these extraordinary achievements and more. Thick with social, cultural, and political history, Nicholas Miraculous recreates Butler's prodigious career and the dynamic age that nourished him.

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