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A biography of the charismatic Alexander Meiklejohn that tracks his turbulent career as an educational innovator at Brown University, Amherst College, and the University of Wisconsin's 'Experimental College' in the early twentieth century. It also features his later work as a civil libertarian in the Joe McCarthy era.

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Intellectual biography at its best. Nelson has presented us with the whole Meiklejohn, warts and all. - E. David Cronon, editor of Twentieth Century America ""Meiklejohn... experimented throughout his life with teaching curriculum and institutional organization in an effort to create educational programs that inspired people to create democratic societies.... Nelson has done a great service to Meiklejohn's memory by capturing student voices and allowing them to evoke Meiklejohn at his best - as a teacher and scholar of ethics and democracy."" - Mary Ann Dzuback, Journal of American History

Education and Democracy The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn 18721964

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      Publisher: MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780299171445, 978-0299171445
      ISBN10: 0299171442

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      Book Synopsis
      A biography of the charismatic Alexander Meiklejohn that tracks his turbulent career as an educational innovator at Brown University, Amherst College, and the University of Wisconsin's 'Experimental College' in the early twentieth century. It also features his later work as a civil libertarian in the Joe McCarthy era.

      Trade Review
      Intellectual biography at its best. Nelson has presented us with the whole Meiklejohn, warts and all. - E. David Cronon, editor of Twentieth Century America ""Meiklejohn... experimented throughout his life with teaching curriculum and institutional organization in an effort to create educational programs that inspired people to create democratic societies.... Nelson has done a great service to Meiklejohn's memory by capturing student voices and allowing them to evoke Meiklejohn at his best - as a teacher and scholar of ethics and democracy."" - Mary Ann Dzuback, Journal of American History

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