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Horace Mann; a biography.

Messerli, Jonathan, 1926- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0394429206
Physical Description: xviii, 604 pages, xxxvii pages. : illustrations. ; 25 cm
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: New York : Knopf, 1972 [©1971]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Bibliography: pages 591-595.

Formatted Contents Note:

Age of homespun -- Providence -- Rustication -- Republican aristocrat -- Bridges, railroads, and religious freedom -- Shuolders of Atlas -- Lonely, empty life -- To the brink -- Reluctant crusader -- Moralist in an immoral society -- Transient and the intrinsic -- Circuit rider to the next generation -- New Shay: the deacon's masterpiece -- clubs at the basr of an apple tree -- New vistas -- Another world -- Running a tilt like a mad bull -- Family andnation -- Sisyphus -- Ordeal of compromise -- Statesman and the prophet -- Impossible dream.